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Senate secures members' interest changes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... communicate with members. The reprieve is five months more than the Senate Economics Legislation Committee recommended in its inquiry into the bill, which called for a delay from 1 October 2019 to December 1. Hume said the changes represented the government's ...

Australia investor friendly, not consumer friendly: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... of financial advice fees being charged without the provision of the relevant services have recently been the subject of inquiry... we have identified a range of industry practices in relation to trustee oversight, many of which fall below the standard ...

Chief economist update: This land is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... government's characterisation of the violent clashes between protesters and the police as "riots"; (4), a full independent inquiry into police responses and; (5) arrested protesters are unconditionally freed. Months of disruptions to everyday life ...

ASIC clamps down on poor advice, grandfathered commissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... Frydenberg push through numerous legislative reforms stemming from the banking Royal Commission and Productivity Commission inquiry into superannuation. This includes the proposed conduct accountability regime, single default account, advice fee deductions ...

CommInsure sale stalls, sold for discount

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... directly to chief executive Matt Comyn, ensuring the bank is implementing the recommendations from the APRA's prudential inquiry report into governance, culture and accountability within CBA.

Association policy lead to join Treasury

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... valuable contribution in policy to the SMSF Association and broader sector. He led the SMSFA's work on the Financial System Inquiry, the 2016 superannuation reforms, the establishment of FASEA and its educational and ethical standards, the Royal Commission ...

APRA opens margin requirement talks

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... the extra capital requirement - the first applied to an institution outside the big four banks since the CBA prudential inquiry - would remain in place until its remediation work was complete and identified gaps were closed.

APRA hits Allianz over risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... its governance. The additional capital requirement is the fifth applied by APRA in the wake of the landmark prudential inquiry into the Commonwealth Bank, which showed the bank's operational risk management framework "worked better on paper than in practice". ...

More scrutiny for super fund, insurance firm chiefs

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
Top executives of superannuation funds and life insurance companies could soon face another inquiry that has traditionally put the blowtorch on the chiefs of the four major banks. The Coalition has asked that the House of Representatives Standing Committee ...

Document leak puts NAB under the pump

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... mature and strong. New South Wales Labor Senator Deborah O'Neill successfully moved to refer the auditing sector to an inquiry by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services in Parliament yesterday, with a final report ...