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Compliance alone doesn't make the grade

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2006
Competent is a long way from professional, professional is not something that should be prescribed by the regulators and, as an industry, we've had our focus all wrong, according to Financial Services Educators Agency Australia (FSEAA) general manager ...

Thou shalt inherit an empty piggy bank

... to pass their bad money habits to their children too. A survey of 1,125 Australians conducted by a company that makes money box containers, Money Ed Box, has found that those who were not taught money skills as children grew up to be poor handlers of ...

Fiducian adds advisers SMSF course

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2006
In a bid to boost their financial planner's specialist expertise, Fiducian Financial Service's advisers will complete a self-managed superannuation fund training course that is currently being encouraged by ASIC on top of PS 146. Technical services ...

SMSFs must diversify or miss out: Bourse Data

... fund members, many SMSF investors generally have higher account balances of $800,000 or more, giving them a big enough cash box to buy investment properties. But Rodney Weston, general manager at stock market information and education services provider ...

CSA rejects compulsory governance reporting

... corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting and/or to make it compulsory, because both solutions would merely reduce CSR to a box-ticking exercise. In a submission to the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee's (CAMAC) inquiry into CSR, the ...

Magnitude on the lookout for practices in growth phase

Magnitude Financial Planning, the financial planning business of BT Financial Group, has announced a tie-up with regional NSW-based financial planning group QUBE, a maiden deal ahead of a series of similar tie-ups this year. CEO Mark Spiers said that ...

Use structured products to complement private equity investing: Absolute Capital

The consistent income flow of structured products can be used to complement the J-curve nature of private equity investing where income may not flow for years and capital gains may not materialise until the asset is sold. Deon Joubert, group managing ...

Poor governance high returns: SBS

... mandating corporate governance "will not result in better outcomes, as prescribing requirements could result in a 'tick the box approach' which defeats the spirit and intent of the concept of corporate governance". But Gibbs adds that PSS and their corporate ...

Mercer to screen managers against ESG

... have said while CG should be supported, it should not be compulsorily forced upon companies as doing so may lead to 'check box' approaches to CG which they believe could be counter-productive. These sentiments were also recently echoed by Mike Lotzof ...

Compliance is a profession: ACI

... the development of the compliance profession, which is relatively new." He added that compliance is not just a set of tick-box skills but a profession in its own right. But it must also be integrated into organisations properly so that it plays a proper ...