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Hayne targets superannuation employer connections

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... offered is unsolicited unless the person "attended the meeting, made or received the telephone call, or initiated the [inquiry]." He pointed to the attempts made by ANZ and CBA to sell superannuation in bank branches under a general advice scenario - ...

Life risk commissions must also go: Hayne

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... of advice, the Government stated it would move to mandate level commissions, as was recommended by the Financial System Inquiry." Also read: Hayne's final verdict on grandfathered commissions.

Parametric critiques Productivity Commission's final report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... said the PC "stopped short of calculating the impact of tax naivety on a member's retirement outcomes," and said the inquiry didn't have the sufficient resources to interrogate the questions it has posed about Australia's retirement system. ...

Will the PC recommendations fall through the cracks?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... the cracks. QMV principal consultant Jonathan Steffanoni says from an enforcement and legal standpoint, the road from inquiry recommendations to government policy and then passing as law is uncertain at best. Federal Treasurer Stuart Robert said the ...

Best in show, but for how long?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... performance is only true of investment markets in a narrow sense... The adage is also incongruent with the evidence in this inquiry that good long-term performance is associated with low fees, good governance, and sufficient scale," the report reads. ...

PC calls for group insurance review

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission is calling for an independent public inquiry into group insurance and floated the possibility of tougher regulation that includes sharper ASIC oversight, among other recommendations. Recommendation 18 in the Productivity ...

The problem the Productivity Commission is trying to fix

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... appears to operate more in favour of the industry itself is particularly damaging. Coming on top of the Royal Commission inquiry, the financial advice FASEA reforms and controversial Federal Court rulings that will redefine financial advice, the PC's ...

Regulators in Productivity Commission firing line

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... APRA is effectively weeding out underperforming funds and options from the system. Also recommended was an independent inquiry into the retirement income system, which would examine the role of compulsory super in the broader retirement incomes system ...

Hiring continues but wage growth under pressure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
The Royal Commission inquiry and the state of the property market has not dampened the financial services sector's positive hiring intentions over the next three months, recruitment firm ManpowerGroup says, but there are challenges. The finance, insurance ...

Industry dubious about one regulatory body: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... enforcement are satisfactory. It was only in August 2017 that APRA set a precedent and decided to establish a prudential inquiry into CBA despite knowing about the group's deficiencies in governance, culture and accountability for some time, Hayne ...