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O'Dwyer says life insurance back on the agenda

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... are back on the agenda, Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer said. Speaking at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, O'Dwyer noted that "too often" Australians have received bad or inadequate financial advice on life insurance ...

ASIC needs to focus on prevention, not cure

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... develop more proactive regulation, according to Affinia chair Steve Helmich. Speaking on a panel at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Helmich said that ASIC's role is to ensure favourable customer experience based on compliance, while the "fiduciary ...

No more inquiries, says FSC

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... end the "traffic jam of financial reform" which has cost the industry nearly $3 billion. Speaking at the 2016 FSC Leaders Summit in Melbourne, Loane slammed the number of "substantial" reforms to which the industry has been subjected over the past seven ...

FSC names new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... Financial Services Council chief executive Sally Loane has named the organisation's new chair. Speaking at the FSC Leaders Summit 2016 in Melbourne, Loane said that outgoing chair Greg Cooper would be replaced by Perpetual chief executive Geoff Lloyd. ...

ME makes peak appointment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
ME, the bank owned by 30 industry super funds, has appointed a former lawyer and accomplished mountaineer to its board. Cheryl Bart's board appointment was effective from 1 July. ME described the former lawyer, who started her career in the banking ...

CalPERS increasing emerging manager exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... investment managers by 2020. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) told the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University last week that from July 2017 it will seek investment proposals from eligible mid-size external investment ...

ASIC puts culture top of mind

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... Greg Medcraft, heralded culture to be "the new black". Speaking at the Thomson Reuters 4th Annual Australian Regulatory Summit in Sydney, Medcraft said as a key driver of conduct within the financial services industry, focusing on culture was integral ...

AFA heralds adaptability

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... technology and industry disruptors. The call follows the conclusion of the AFA Leaders Forum community of practice business summit (the Leaders Forum Business Summit), which took 15 invited delegates from the country's leading advice practices through ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... impact objective. Yet Dezelan said the conversation had now shifted from words to action. At a recent impact investment summit in The Hague, Dezelan said "there was enough impact managers present there to see how it is possible to invest and make reasonable ...

QIC makes first agribusiness acquisition

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... agribusiness strategy and intention to grow the "beef industry to meet new Asian demand" at the Northern Queensland Economic Summit in late 2015. NAP is one of Australia's largest agricultural enterprises, covering 5.8 million hectares across Queensland ...