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Coalition wants fund governance changes: Fletcher

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Paul Fletcher, the Liberal Party member for Bradfiled who sits on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on corporations and financial services, has voiced the Federal Opposition's concerns about superannuation fund governance. Speaking yesterday in Melbourne ...

Super funds argue against unfair fee rules

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... decision that would stop funds capping administration fees under draft reform laws. Speaking before a Parliamentary Joint Committee that is investigating the last tranche of the Gillard Government's MySuper reforms, representatives for industry lobbying ...

Trustee liability issues surface at PJC

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... risk of contentious litigation. Advocates of several industry representative bodies spoke before a Parliamentary Joint Committee which is investigating the final bill of the Gillard Government's MySuper legislation, part of its wide-ranging Stronger ...

Trio Capital action group to put forward Federal Candidate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) of allegedly failing in their roles as gatekeepers, as well as a Parliamentary Joint Committee set up to investigate the fraud of allegedly refusing to award fair compensation. Minister for financial services and ...

AIST argues for fee-cap in MySuper submission

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... with asset-based administration fees. After putting the finishing touches on its submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee overseeing the Gillard Government's superannuation reforms this week, the representative body for not-for-profit super funds ...

Medcraft calls for international super benchmarking

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... this year that simply reporting major holdings leaves "room for cynicism". Appearing before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, yesterday he urged that disclosure be taken one step further to put the statement into ...

Trio fraud victims demand compensation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... education material. It must be made clear the investor what he or she are entering into," he said. The Parliamentary Joint Committee that reviewed the Trio scandal recommended this same point, he said.

SMSFs should pay SuperStream levy: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... proportionate contribution towards it. The AIST has also recommended that the government adopt the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' recommendation that the Australian Taxation Office be required to provide a regular ...

Former AFA president mourned

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... Murphy also served as Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee from 1999 to 2006, making representations to the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Financial Services Reform on behalf of advisers in the lead up to the implementation of the Financial ...

Trio: ASIC evidence insufficient to prosecute Flader

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... insufficient evidence to prove controller of the Trio Group, Jack Flader, has breached Australian Law. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry into the collapse of Trio Capital report said that US citizen Jack ...