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ISN expand policy and research team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
Industry Super Network has expanded its policy and research team with two new hires to its Sydney and Melbourne office. Anh Nguyen has been appointed as a policy analyst, financial markets and will be based in Sydney while Mohita Zaheed has been appointed ...

Cbus takes lead on trustee disclosure

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
Representative bodies have welcomed a decision by construction industry fund Cbus to disclose how much it pays trustee directors and senior executives in its annual report, due out later this week. It is a move expected to be mirrored in the upcoming ...

ISN blasts FSC's independence policy

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
The Financial Services Council's definition of independence is "novel," said David Whiteley, chief executive, Industry Super Network (ISN). Policy released last month by the representative body provided mandatory guidelines that said a majority of directors ...

FOFA passes as industry backs professionalism

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
Industry bodies have broadly welcomed yesterday's passage of the FOFA legislation through the Senate, with the focus on codes of conduct effectively setting up the industry for self-regulation amid the push towards professionalism and better consumer ...

Conflict of interest still key issue: ASIC shadow shop

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
ASIC has revealed conflict of interest has again emerged as a problem for consumers in its latest shadow shop research on financial advice. The results of the 2011 survey, carried out to test the quality of advice given to consumers in or nearing retirement ...

Disclosure regulations unnecessary: FIRSTSUPER

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
The superannuation disclosure debate and industry transparency was raised again yesterday after ASIC promised future guidance for super funds, meanwhile one super fund that already uses disclosure practices has called the actions "unnecessary". Peter ...

FOFA moderate and reasonable: ISN

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
Head of the Industry Super Network David Whiteley has contested claims that the proposed FOFA legislation would cost the industry thousands of jobs. Reports today point to comments from Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief Richard Klipin, who ...

Ripoll defends FOFA integrity

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
A heated panel session between government and industry heavyweights about the FOFA reforms led to calls for a realistic debate and new government promises, with opt-in dominating the discussion. In a session at the Financial Planning Association's annual ...

Industry panel turns up FOFA heat

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
The 'future is in your hands' industry panel participants treated day one of the 2011 AFA conference to a lively debate over the architecture of the future of financial advice reforms, the regulatory separation of superannuation from the rest of the ...

CHOICE, ISN hit back at associations aspersions

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
CHOICE chair and AUSfin member, Jenni Mack, has responded to financial planning association remarks about the parliamentary FOFA Bill on Friday and said they were aware of the disclosure provision and should instead move on as the rest of the industry ...