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Senate to investigate white-collar crime

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... inquiry into penalties for white-collar crime, following calls from regulators and Financial System Inquiry chair David Murray to strengthen the system. The Senate voted yesterday in favour of a Greens motion to establish the inquiry. Greens Senator ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
Properly calibrating the superannuation system is the most important policy change from the Murray review of the financial system. Super could be sharper, leaner and easier to understand. That's why the Murray proposals to define the objective of superannuation ...

Government releases final risk reforms package

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... not identify significant improvement, the Government will move to mandate level commissions, as was recommended by the Murray Inquiry," said Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer. "We will ensure that the industry develops appropriate lapse reporting data ...

ASIC revenue and investigations decrease in 2015

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... ASIC's support for the Government's plan "to have a private operator upgrade and operate the registry business," something Murray Inquiry panellist Professor Kevin Davis recently suggested could "be expected to reduce use of this public good with consequent ...

Future Fund's morphing objective

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... further reflected in how the fund now invests more specifically into projects in contrast to how its inaugural chair, David Murray, would regularly caution commentators from seeing the Future Fund as a generalist sovereign fund. Commensurate with the ...

Australian IPOs beat US

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... dean, Professor Alex Frino, who authored the research, said the new government's focus on competitiveness, along with the Murray Report, have brought the spotlight on the issue. "We have seen a number of Australian IPOs lost to offshore exchanges as ...

Bowen draws red line on default fund choice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... be a political football if that's achievable." Labor supports "the strengthening of bank capital requirements and David Murray's intention to have unquestionable stronger banks. "There are areas where we have said we want to work with the government ...

Government to lift advice standards by law

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... professional standards of advisers. The response's approach to life insurance is different to that recommended by David Murray's FSI report. "We support the retail life insurance industry's proposed reforms as announced by the then Assistant Treasurer ...

ASIC to be handed greater powers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... powers to effectively regulate the financial services sector. More than 10 months after the release of FSI chairman David Murray's final report, the government has agreed to implement most of the recommendations put forward to strengthen the industry ...

FSI panellist challenges ASIC register sale

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
Murray Inquiry panellist Professor Kevin Davis has proposed an alternative model for the sale of ASIC's Business Registers. Davis, who is the research director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, has released a discussion paper, titled Privatising ...