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Advisers have to act in client's best interests: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... SPAA patron and former High Court judge Sir Anthony Mason who explained at SPAA's recent annual conference that under Common Law financial advisers were required to always act in their client's best interests. Mason said, "If it should come about that ...

Consumers safe under FoFA changes: former judge

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... the 10th annual SPAA conference in Brisbane, the former High Court judge said newspaper reports had overlooked the common law requirement for advisers to always act in the best interests of their clients. "If it should come about that some aspect of ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... individuals to pursue their own self-interest free from government intervention and under conditions of competition and common law, would be a self-regulating and highly prosperous economy. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or ...

More tax changes needed to aid local funds: BDO

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... if it has an Australian source. But the question of the source of profits from share trading is based on antiquated common law concepts, said BDO. There are competing views as to how the source of profit from share trading should be determined, which ...

The downside of Ripoll

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... fiduciary duties, which clearly defines by law what the planner's responsibilities are, as opposed to the recommended common law fiduciary duties, where an investor has to go through lengthy court trials to prove a breach. "It's easy to claim against ...

Planners should be fiduciaries: IFSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2009
... any other incentive," said Whiteley. Whiteley said such an arrangement implies a fundamental rewriting of established Common Law principles. Brogden dismissed Whiteley's objections, citing how medical doctors are able to provide independent advice to ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... that an economic system that allows individuals to pursue their own self-interest under conditions of competition and common law, would be a self-regulating and highly prosperous economy, gave way to the theory posited by John Maynard Keynes in his opus ...

ESSS call off industrial action and work bans

... proposed work bans and industrial action. Under the new proposed agreement the government will provide members with a common law deed of agreement, reportedly preventing their pension assets being pooled with the large government pension fund, that has ...
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