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Former Count CEO joins Chase

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... Jordan retains his role as the Government's chief external tax adviser as chair of the Government's Business Tax Working Group and Board of Taxation. The two join the recently appointed director Richard English, who joined in July from Macquarie Priv ...

MLC appoints super funds board member

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... to pursue directorships and advisory roles. He is a member of the Federal Government's Stronger Super Governance Working Group, deputy president of the Accounting Foundation - University of Sydney, member and immediate past chairman of the Superannuation ...

Portfolio Disclosure guideline released

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
A working group formed by the Financial Services Council has put together draft guidelines for portfolio disclosure in response to ASIC's call for super funds and managed funds to disclose their investments last year. The guidelines will propose that ...

Treasury heavy handed on portfolio disclosure

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... (ASIC) commissioner Greg Medcraft in 2011, both ASFA and the Financial Services Council (FSC) engaged AISC to form a working group to implement enhanced portfolio disclosure for both super funds, and managed investment funds. "As an industry we had committed ...

Gonski to join APS board

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... are very much looking forward to working with him," Cuffe said. Gonski led the Business and Community Partnerships Working Group on Taxation Reform set up by the Howard Government that resulted in a suite of changes to grow philanthropy, including the ...

Stonger Super second tranche amendments released

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
The government has released amendments to the second tranche of the Stronger Super legislation. This includes expanding the covenants for registrable superannuation entity (RSE) licensees, applying new trustee duties to trustees of an RSE that offers ...

Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... as well as the positive vote of the Greek Parliament last Sunday. "At the same time, following today's Eurogroup Working Group meeting, it has appeared that further technical work between Greece and the troika is needed in a number of areas, including ...

UniSuper confirms working group

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
UniSuper has confirmed it will establish a working group to review the defined benefit funding issues raised last year. The announcement follows a meeting held last Thursday between the UniSuper board, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), the ...

SuperStream exposure draft a positive step

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... continued to meet on a monthly basis to work through upcoming legislation. The current draft comes from the SuperStream working group which is focused on two objectives of account consolidation and the new draft outlining new standardisation process ...

Australian Custodial Services Association appoints new chair

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... elected as Chair of ACSA. I have been very impressed with the dedication and commitment of Association members and working group participants on the development of the custody industry within Australia's broader financial services sector," said Jond. ...