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Royal Commission looks at choice of super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... Report. However the issue yet to be addressed is why some employees should be denied their choice. "The conclusion of the Murray Report was that there was no good reason [not to repeal]. The Commission invites any interested party to make submissions ...

XTB launch opens corporate bonds to retail

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... individual investors from accessing bonds from many of the same companies that they may be shareholders in." According to the Murray Review, Murphy said, given the size and sophistication of Australia's financial system and economy, we should have a ...

Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... now for discussing reform in the life insurance sector sits with the government as it formulates its response to David Murray's Financial Services Inquiry."

Retirement income committee to launch in June

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... include policy experts Vince Fitzgerald, Bob Officer, Elana Rubin, Andrew Podger and Patricia Pascuzzo. FSI chair David Murray and Chris Bowen MP will make keynote speeches at the forum. This announcement follows the release of the Treasury's Tax White ...

Regional banks call for FSI reforms without delay

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... an enhanced crisis management toolkit. They would also be disappointed by any government decision to ignore chair David Murray's recommendation against introducing a bank deposits insurance levy. Bank of Queensland chief executive, Jon Sutton, said they ...

ASIC penalties 'like being hit with a lettuce leaf': Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... Investment Commissions (ASIC) are so weak that they are like being hit with a lettuce leaf, Financial System Inquiry chair David Murray said. Speaking at a panel session at the ASIC summit, only two seats away from ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft, Murray ...

FSC supports longer threshold for unclaimed life insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... $550 million in 2012-2013. Loane said that the decision to change the threshold back to seven years was "backed by David Murray's Financial System Inquiry which found this would halve the number of claims." She added, "Under the three year rule there ...

Perennial to raise capital for Aussie equities LIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... Alan Schoenheimer. Dick Morath and Paul Clitheroe are the remaining non-executive directors. Perennial Value founder John Murray is the LIC's managing director: "the Wealth Defender investment strategy actively seeks to deliver a 'best of both ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... significant policy processes. There will be a broad based tax review - the Tax White Paper, a government policy response to David Murray's Financial System Inquiry, reforms to lift financial adviser competency standards, completion of Mark Johnson's ...

Borrowing magnifies risk: David Murray

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
FSI chair and former CBA chief executive David Murray clarified his position on borrowing in super at the Switzer Leadership Lunch in Sydney. Arguing that the media had misrepresented his views, Murray explained that the FSI recommended that superannuation ...