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OneVue reshuffles board ahead of IPO

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... conflicts of interest, the company said in a release. He is set to oversee the amalgamation of NSW State Super, the NSW Treasury Corporation and the Safety, Return to Work and Support Division. He felt that it was "no longer appropriate that he serve ...

Michael Hintze to join Financial Systems Inquiry

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... Morgan was previously a chief executive officer of Westpac Banking Corporation and a deputy secretary of the Australian Treasury, and has worked for the International Monetary Fund. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2009 for service ...

ASFA appoints first COO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... Oasis Asset Management. He has also held positions at the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and Treasury. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said: "The new COO role is key to delivering ASFA's business and operational strategy. "Tim ...

Labor hopes to disallow FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... at after extensive consultation." In a letter to Industry Super Australia chief executive David Whiteley, opposition treasury spokesperson Chris Bowen said the government's decision to push the amendments through simultaneously as legislation and regulation ...

Government limits general advice exemption in FoFA amendments

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... government put "on hold" the decision to introduce amendments to permit adviser commissions in insurance through super. Treasury will be conducting a consultation process on the life insurance sector in the coming months. "In order to ensure that the ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... threatening to brand China as a "currency manipulator" as it did several times in the past, Bloomberg reports that, "U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew... praised China's announcement to widen the daily trading band... in an e-mailed statement yesterday". ...

State Super to combine with two NSW state funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... Corporation, the trustee of State Super, will merge with that of the Safety, Return to Work and Support Division (SRWSD) and NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) to form a fund worth $65 billion. The amalgamated functions of the new entity will include appointment ...

Citi appoints head of consumer banking products

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... Australia. Wroth will be responsible for Citi's mortgage, deposit and insurance product teams, as well as the consumer bank's treasury, investments and wealth advisory functions. Wroth has been with Citi since 2012. Prior to that she held positions at ...

Synchron pushes for providers' direct payment

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... to allow financial advisers to receive payments directly from providers. The licensee will be making a submission to Treasury to amend Section 911A of the Act, which according to Synchron exposes financial advisers to risks over which they have no control. ...

Treasury looks at further FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
Treasury is considering confidential proposals to reverse rules that ban conflicted remuneration arrangements for corporate super specialist advisers, according to Douglas Latto, president of the Corporate Super Specialist Alliance (CSSA). Traditionally ...