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Former IOOF company loses court battle in timber scheme

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... licence conditions on IOOF and disqualify Kelaher, former IOOF chair George Vernados, chief financial officer David Coulter, general manager of legal, risk and compliance Paul Vine and general counsel Gary Riordan. APRA was seeking significant changes ...

Complexity of grandfathered commissions overlooked

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
In a new policy paper, Association of Financial Advisers general manager, policy and professionalism Phil Anderson argues that the complexity of grandfathered commissions has been overlooked by policy makers. Anderson states in the paper that the 2012 ...

Chief economist update: Morrison, Frydenberg cannot have their surplus and eat it too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
Recent headlines underscore what Financial Standard had been ranting about months before. Those rants include The general economic uncertainty wouldn't be sufficient to prod businesses and consumers to invest and spend, even if interest rates were ...

Rainmaker Group expands into ESG media, acquires The Sustainability Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Financial services information publishing company Rainmaker Group, publisher of Financial Standard, announced the acquisition of sustainable investment specialist publications The Sustainability Report and Audacious Investing. Following the purchase ...

Results of ASIC MDA review imminent

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... work, given the diversity of structures. "Everybody will have a view and that view will reflect their own commercial and general interests," Potter said.

Insider trading rife among company directors: ANU

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Research conducted by the Australian National University suggests insider trading by company directors and associated trading on the Australian Security Exchange is "rife". The research examined trades made by company directors after positive and negative ...

Calls for better drawdown rules

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Over the next decade the number of retired Australians over 65 is projected to grow from four million to seven million, sparking calls from Willis Towers Watson for better drawdown rules to ensure retirees aren't being too conservative with their ...

Treasury agreed with Grattan SG modelling

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... This included inputs from its retirement income, tax analysis and the housing team in social policy division. It made general and specific comments on Grattan's draft report including on treatment of CIPRs, bequests, public/private consumption, pension ...

Super expert re-joins Mercer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... products. He became the bank's head of insurance in super in late 2016, and held the role until joining Rice Warner as its general manager of superannuation in April 2018.

Chief economist update: Time for a Keynes comeback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2019
... zero, at zero or even negative, central banks have or are running out of ammunition. This is apart from the fact that the general global economic uncertainty is hindering business and consumer spending, and therefore, providing no multiplier effect in ...