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Robo-advisers expected to meet fiduciary rule

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... The SEC's position on the issue is continuing despite the broader push by the Trump administration to relax financial regulation. It reinforces speculation that the SEC's new chair will be focused on enhancing protections of retail consumers. In Australia ...

APRA announces promotions, new hires

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... Treasury in the UK, where he was a senior policy adviser. Current deputy head of the European Central Bank's financial regulation division Jane O'Doherty will also join APRA as the lead of a new combined governance, operational and insurance risk specialist ...

Advice from abroad

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JAN 2017
... financial advice market and took shape from a combination of feedback from expats and increasing focus on financial regulation from Australian and international governments. "Over the years I was getting more and more questions from colleagues overseas ...

SMSFA appoints academic to board

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... leadership positions at Australian universities and is a published researcher with a particular focus of financial regulation, superannuation, innovation and commercialisation. She has more than 20 years' experience as a non-executive director on both ...

Banking and Finance Oath reshuffles board

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
... International Monetary Fund. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2008 for his services to financial regulation. Also joining the BFO board are ANZ Global Wealth chief executive Joyce Phillips, BT Investment Management chief executive ...

Bowen draws red line on default fund choice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... regulation, it is better that the support is bipartisan, for certainty and for the sector. We don't want financial regulation and prudential regulation to be a political football if that's achievable." Labor supports "the strengthening of bank capital ...

Turnbull backs financial start-ups

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... gigantic funds management industry and that is an enormous base upon which to build. We've got very strong financial regulation, prudential regulation, we've got some of the best banks in the world by any measure so there's a first-class legal system. ...

Treasury examining ASX monopoly

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... Council's advice very carefully," Frydenberg said. In the same speech, Frydenberg also targeted streamlining financial regulation as a priority. He noted the growing importance of making local regulation more compatible with global markets while still ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... governors of the Group of Seven (G7) wealthiest nations are meeting in Dresden to discuss the global economy and financial regulation, with Athens on the agenda amid stubborn fears of a Greek eurozone exit. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble ...

Volcker Alliance proposes new US regulator system

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... led by former US Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, have released a report arguing that the structure of financial regulation in the US still needs major urgent reform. In the report titled "Reshaping The Financial Regulatory System, Long Delayed, Now ...