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Fed Govt creates financial services task force

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... Australians," Jo-Anne Bloch said. Richard Gilbert, chief executive at the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) said any measures to improve financial advice delivery and provide more Australians' with access to cost effective advice would ...

Cut super tax, boost co-contribution

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... superannuation cost is still woefully behind on what people need to retire on, having regard to all reasonable pension funds. IFSA's position is that individuals clearly need to be saving more, and one way to achieve that through a target of 12 per cent ...

GSJBWAM appoints infrastructure exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... management and analysis of the Goldman Sachs JBWere Australian Infrastructure Wholesale Fund. In October last year, Hare won the IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Award for his research into the implications of climate change on the investment industry. Geoff ...

Mico receives Industry Excellence Award

Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) senior policy manager David Mico receives the Industry Excellence Award for his contribution in the life insurance industry. The award was handed to Mico as part of an IFSA Board resolution in a meeting ...

Fundies find a loophole in money laundering law

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... up the second biggest group, after banks, among the 19,000 entities Austrac has identified as falling under its authority. IFSA chief executive Richard Gilbert said: "Until yesterday it was full steam ahead. This has been a massive expenditure for our ...

IIFA pledges global reporting standards

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... investment funds." Newly elected inaugural chairman of the new association, Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive Richard Gilbert, said while it may be costly, regulation was a necessary burden. "The price of peace in this ...

IFSA to release new guidelines

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) is set to launch three new guidelines covering fraud and security, business continuity and disaster recovery. IFSA chief executive Richard Gilbert said the guidelines would be launched "in the ...

Australians top list but still underinsured

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... lower costs and increased coverage. He said they would prefer to lobby via the Insurance and Financial Services Association (IFSA), to avoid the impression of lobbying purely with a view to increased business. "A big part of superannuation is it's incentivised. ...

Consumers worry about value, not fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... Australia executive director of sales and marketing. ING's survey follows a recent Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) report which found nearly four in 10 consumers who switched super funds did so because they believed they were being ...

Green paper bags top IFSA/Deloitte award

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
Ben Hare, equities dealer at Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management, has won the IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Award for his research paper on the implications of climate change on the investment industry. Each of the 13 candidates needed to be under ...