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SMSF auditor competency education push

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... contraventions of the superannuation law," he said. Audit quality in the SMSF sector and fears a commoditised low cost tick-box approach is emerging at some ends of the market has forced increasing requirements for 'gatekeepers', concerns which were ...

A surplus in 2012/13, and then what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... He has to make good on his promise to get the budget into surplus come hell or high water - or it'll be another tick on the box of the lost of Labor's broken promises. "The reality is that we will need to cut and cancel existing programs if we are to ...

Adviser banned for chasing commissions

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... behalf such as smoker status, height, weight, alcoholic consumption and occupations. Heathwood then used her own post office box and a personal mobile number for the application which were created under her client names with changes to certain details ...

Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
"What do you see You people gazing at me You see a doll on a music box That's wound by a key..." -- Doll on a Music Box All eyes are fixed on the RBA today. Will they? Won't they? Make it three (interest rate cuts) for three (Board meetings)? As far ...

AXA IM to expand responsible investment focus

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... challenges in Asia. "Undoubtedly Asia represents a unique investment opportunity, but global investors should abandon the box-ticking approach based on the application of a single set of corporate governance rules, and instead encourage Asian companies ...

ASIC bans authorised representative of Romad Financial Services

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... continuing with the banning of a Melbourne-based authorised representative of Romad Financial Services. Rory Mor Macleod Deutsch of Box Hill North cannot provide financial services for four years after he failed to comply with financial services laws. ...

ASIC suspends Far East AFSL

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
An independent Sydney-based private investment bank has had its Australian financial services license suspended for failing to lodge financial statements. Far East Capital Limited specialises in the resources sector in the junior end of the market and ...

FOFA reforms are a soft landing

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... obvious, so clear but the reality is that there are lots of circumstances when it doesn't happen," said Ripoll. "The tick box approach to licencing and education can be improved and opt-in, or what I prefer to call 'ongoing consent', forms an important ...

Fraud firm masquerades as financial advisors: ASIC alert

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has issued a warning on a fraudulent financial advisory firm. ASIC has shut down Frontline Financial Planning's website which posted the Australian company number and Australian financial services ...

Super funds complacent on sustainability

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... tend to pass the buck. "They generally push the responsibility to fund managers to do the analysis and be able to tick the box to say they are looking at these issues. Some funds on the periphery are doing major work on quantifiable analysis of these ...