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Pressure mounts on super in modern awards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... yearly review. It came just a day after the submissions deadline for the government's discussion paper entitled, 'Better regulation and governance, enhanced transparency and improved competition in superannuation'. The 'improved competition in superannuation' ...

Government targets super in awards, board independence

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... investment. I want investors to actively take an interest in the financial outcomes." The discussion paper, entitled 'Better regulation and governance, enhanced transparency and improved competition in superannuation', also focused heavily on Labor's ...

Industry agrees: SMSFs are not for everyone

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... bodies have welcomed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) consultation paper asking for better regulation for establishing and advising self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). "The announcement by ASIC today is consistent with ...

AusFIN calls for 'fairer outcomes'

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
A number of associations, trade unions and interest groups have banded together to push for better regulation in financial services. The newly formed Australian Financial Integrity Network (AusFIN) is made up of various bodies including industry heavyweights ...

FPA defends turf, looks to HNW

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... labelling it a consumer protection issue, and argued that problems with products should be dealt with through better regulation of products and not advisers. "We no longer want to see just the advisers being held accountable, for a failure of a product ...

Short form PDS gets green light

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... Lindsay Tanner, said the product disclosure statement reform marks the completion of the Government's second Better Regulation Ministerial Partnership. "This furthers the Government's ongoing commitment to remove unnecessary or poorly designed regulation ...

When old news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... faces. This one from another Charles, Philadelphia Fed President Plosser commented that, "I believe we do need better regulation. It is not obvious to me that we need more regulation, but we need to do it differently." Read, put more barriers/caveats ...

Public equity under pressure

... companies. Make the regulation easier to follow and culturally, encourage them to be competitive and different." Better regulation means more headroom for the chief executive to focus on running the business. "Once you impair the leadership, you really ...

Not on our watch: ASIC

... regulation, added important new enforcement matters, acted against company insolvent trading and launched our Better Regulation initiatives." Among the year's highlights were the ASIC shadow shopping survey, enforcement proceedings against a record 352 ...
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