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Super funds encouraged to collect indigenous data

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... partnership will assist First Nations to meet its goal to deliver eight events around Australia over the next three years. One community member at the inaugural Big Koori Super Day Out in Redfern found $750,000 in a defined benefit account he never knew ...

Republican brands Dodd-Frank "regulatory waterboarding"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... financial institutions in the US, have put smaller banks out of business. "Washington's regulatory waterboarding is drowning community banks and small businesses," he told bankers gathered in Washington. "On behalf of every hardworking, struggling American ...

Further fintech reform on cards

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... industry on the next phase of Australia's crowd funding framework "to ensure that the broader economy and wider business community can gain appropriate access to new and alternative equity funding options." Morrison said the government has also been ...

Labor will announce retirement income priorities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... Construction Commission. "We've always said the Age Pension is crucial to retirement incomes. A lot of people in the community that I represent rely on the full Age Pension. More and more people over time will rely on the part pension," Chalmers said. ...

Super governance at top of APRA agenda

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... on "prudential soundness" following period of underperformance in the industry. "There has clearly been a gap between community expectation and industry practice that needs to be closed," Byres said. He also had more general comments about improving ...

Quant hedge fund arrives down under

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... founders John Fawcett and Jean Bredeche. The firm made initial allocations to three algorithms crowd-sourced from the community in 2015, and has made additional allocations in 2016.

FICAP marks 10th anniversary with record fundraising

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
The Financial Industry Community Aid Program (FICAP) celebrated its tenth year milestone last week by raising more than $200,000 at its annual 'Who Wants to be a RockStar?' fundraising night. More than 700 professionals from the financial services industry ...

Statewide chair collects AIST Trustee of the Year

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... a strong commitment to the retirement outcomes of their members and/or all Australians; significant contribution to community awareness of superannuation; and a contribution that creates ground breaking change or improvements, or sets the scene for future ...

Australian non-bank finance shows robust growth

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... to over $58 million in 2015. Donation-based crowd-funding platforms have also grown in popularity particularly in the community, charitable and social cause sectors raising over $13 million in 2015. "The substantial growth provides a glimpse into the ...

Govt announces superannuation's objective

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... paper, they explain that a legislated objective will serve as a guide to policy-makers, regulators, industry and the community about superannuation's fundamental purpose. "The objective will provide a way in which competing superannuation proposals can ...