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ASIC brings in disclosure expert to review RG97

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... area; prior to his Hong Kong post, he was chair of the International Organisation of Pensions Supervisors technical committee, a member of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission's product advisory committee and was an ASIC director from 1990 ...

New investment consultant for $2bn industry fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... our previous consultant for nine years, and want to thank them for their service over that time," AvSuper Investment Committee chair Denise Allen said in a statement. "Now we are excited to start work with Frontier." Frontier Advisors chief executive ...

The price is not right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... minutes, "In their discussion of monetary policy for the period ahead, members judged that information received since the Committee met in September indicated that the labor market had continued to strengthen and that economic activity had been rising ...

YBR founder to lead government taskforce

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... Schenkel, Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Craig Laundy and House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics chair David Coleman will also join the group. "Evidence shows that when a small business begins to digitise and ...

FICAP announces new charity partner

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... charities is having. Every dollar we bring in helps in raising a brighter future for Aussie kids," McLaren said. The FICAP Committee also announced Thursday, 22 March as the much anticipated date for RockStar 2018. The 2017 event raised more than $200,000. ...

Life insurer definitions clashing: Regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... instance by insurers. Kell flagged the importance of the project as a "significant priority" to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on life insurance in October. "There's a lot of work that needs to take place within ...

Planners divided on mental health advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... despite them telling you they do," he says. Johns, who is a former member of the FPA's board policy and regulations committee, says getting involved to such a personal extent without the necessary understanding is not in the best interests of the client ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... "Wall Street slumped with the Dow Jones shedding over 200 points after Bill Cassidy, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, said that the Senate tax proposal will delay a corporate tax cut by one year to 2019." All major US equity indices closed lower ...

Former Lehman Brothers chief unveils new asset manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... on consulting roles and posts at Legend Securities and Matrix Advisors. He testified before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he took "full responsibility for the decisions that I made and for the actions that ...

Former NAB risk committee chair joins Wingate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
The chair who steered NAB's board risk committee through the GFC has taken on a new role at Wingate. Paul Rizzo joins Wingate as chair of the firm's Wingate Investment Partners Trust (WIP) investment committee. The WIP trusts co-invest with Wingate ...