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Court fines SMSF admin for "free setup" ads

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... product or service advertised." This decision and the investigation that preceded it form part of ASIC's wider "SMSF Taskforce" program, established in 2012 in response to the growing SMSF sector. Advertising to potential trustees via social media has ...

Elliott new CEO at ANZ

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... a champion of ANZ and of Australia globally but particularly in Asia. He was the chair of the B20's Financing Growth Taskforce and a leading advocate of increasing trade and investment linkages throughout Asia Pacific. He has also been instrumental in ...

ASIC's robo-advice taskforce to monitor AFSLs

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
ASIC's brand new robo-advice taskforce will monitor businesses that intend to provide digital advice. The regulator thinks that "the majority of digital advice initiatives will be proposed by existing licensees rather than start-up businesses." Another ...

ISA appoints retirement policy adviser

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... community. Previously, Gallagher played a central role in the Federal Treasury as director of the retirement income modelling taskforce and in the development of superannuation, personal tax and income security policies. He is also credited with conceptualising ...

Hockey launches Serious Financial Crime Taskforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey will allocate millions to a taskforce that will fight "serious and organised financial crime." The Government will provide $127.6 million over four years to the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce to investigate and prosecute cases ...

ASIC takes SMSF business to court

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... strategies and following the Parliamentary Joint Committee inquiry into the collapse of Trio, ASIC established an SMSF Taskforce in 2012. "The Taskforce meets regularly to examine high-risk and emerging SMSF issues such as property spruiking to SMSFs ...

FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... authorised retail life providers on their APLs as soon as possible; that a professional association, licensee and adviser taskforce be created to make recommendations to the advice sector; and that the Life Insurance Code of Practice mentioned above ...

Trowbridge releases final report

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... authorised retail life providers on their APLs as soon as possible; that a professional association, licensee and adviser taskforce be created to make recommendations to the advice sector; and that the Life Insurance Code of Practice mentioned above ...

BNP Paribas pinches senior JPM custody exec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... Directors. He is the executive sponsor of ACSA's regulatory & compliance working group and co-sponsor of its Stronger Super Taskforce and understands legislative changes impacting custodians and clients. Ian Perkins, currently acting head of the company's ...

Former JBWere acting CEO joins Impact Investing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... Impact', which was launched in September. It is also leading Australia's participation in the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the G8. Madhavan said: "Australia faces some significant challenges around how to adequately fund our social ...