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FPA grief over new fee rules

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... has said it is "concerned" with a part of the Australian Securities & Investments Commission's final guidance on fee disclosure. Today the corporate watchdog handed down guidelines that tell Australian financial services licensees how to follow new fee ...

Don't forget to remind DB members: ASIC

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... wake of poor returns caused by the global financial crisis." The advice follows a review of defined benefit funds' disclosure practices after the financial crisis, when many funds across the entire superannuation sector suffered poor investment returns ...

Interviews start soon for new AIST CEO

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... not-for-profit superannuation funds at the end of this month. "With Fiona at the helm, AIST had led the way in governance and disclosure reforms and been a key driver in improving retirement outcomes for low income earners and women," AIST president ...

FSC to seek inquiry extension

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
... professional trustees operate under the same rules on fees for charitable trusts," she said. "Regulation around fee levels and disclosure must be applied to all professional trustees to ensure transparency and consistency in the industry." Under Corporations ...

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... mismanagement of climate change risk, said a prominent economist. Yesterday the not-for-profit group the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AOPD) released what it said was the first ever global index that shows how the world's biggest investors are managing ...

ASIC extends shorter PDS regime relief

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... prepare and give a full PDS. Extending the transitional period for hedge funds will align with the commencement of new disclosure obligations for hedge funds under ASIC Regulatory Guide 240 Hedge funds: Improving disclosure (RG 240).

Cbus and HESTA take out top AIST awards

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... industry fund Cbus took out the award for best annual report, after its 2011/12 report demonstrated industry leading disclosure and reporting and complied with AIST's Fund Governance Guidelines, said the representative body for not-for-profit super funds. ...

Insto's ignoring climate change

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... reeling, the investment dangers of Climate Change are now being ignored, said Dr John Hewson, chairman of the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) and Shartru Capital. Through AOPD Hewson, a former leader of the Australian Liberal Party and Reserve ...

CCH to handle First Super compliance admin

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... master data source for each fund and the industry as a whole," said First Super CEO Graeme Russell. "Every product disclosure statement advertisement and report will have to utilise data from the APRA reports. That means the reports have to be 100% accurate ...

AIST CEO resigns for UN post

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... AIST made more than 60 policy submissions this year. "With Fiona at the helm, AIST had led the way in governance and disclosure reforms and been a key driver in improving retirement outcomes for low income earners and women," Wood said. David Atkin ...