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FAAA to work with Treasury on CSLR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) said it has met with minister for financial services Stephen Jones to raise key concerns regarding the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). FAAA chief executive Sarah Abood and chair David Sharpe ...

Wollemi Capital appoints former state Treasurer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... the member of Hornsby in the NSW state government for 13 years, holding several senior roles including serving as NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation from 2017 to 2019, NSW Minister for Energy and Environment from 2019 to 2023, NSW Treasurer ...

ASFA pushes for tax redistribution to benefit low-income workers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... enhancing LISTO offers a powerful widespread impact for people's retirement outcomes," she added. Assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones told Financial Standard that the government is committed to delivering financial security ...

Industry demands action to stop abusers claiming victims' super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... policy makers to work together to ensure super is not being used as a mechanism for financial abuse," Kowalczyk said. Minister Jones told Financial Standard that every incident of domestic violence is unacceptable. "Its effects are devastating and long ...

ASIC calls out sloppy adviser data

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
... advisers must comply with the qualification standard, either by completing an approved qualification; qualifications the Minister has determined to be equivalent to an approved qualification for existing advisers; or by accessing the experienced provider ...

Greece taps BlackRock FMA to build sovereign wealth fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
... National Investment Fund with the help of BlackRock's Financial Markets Advisory. Kostis Hatzidakis, Greece's minister of national economy and finance, affirmed the country's plans to set up the first sovereign wealth fund this week, which ...

Cbus recruits chief risk officer from Crown

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2024
Cbus has hired a new chief risk officer from Crown Resorts to replace Wade Martin. Martha Georgiou joins the $90 billion superannuation fund after finishing up as group executive general manager of compliance and regulatory affairs at Crown. Prior to ...

Broken promises leave survivors in the lurch

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2024
... victims seeking compensation, remains. The problem was first called out back in 2018 by the Turnbull government's minister for revenue and financial services Kelly O'Dwyer, who decried how, for too long, perpetrators of horrific crimes have manipulated ...

AFCA to expel Dixon Advisory

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2024
... success with CSLR. It simply makes a bad situation arising from the legislation less bad." "Ultimate success lies with Minister Jones to fix the mess of the CSLR that forces small business and individual advisers to have to pay for the actions of a subsidiary ...

Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... with significant cost increases, like many small business operators, calls to the government have been disregarded. "Minister Stephen Jones has acknowledged the importance of financial advice but there is little remedy for the skyrocketing costs that ...