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Super members should face "better off test"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
... their employer's choice of fund. The push comes as an annual review of Australia's four major banks begins at Parliament House today. Review chair, David Coleman MP, said: "The hearings will provide an opportunity to scrutinise the banks on how they ...

Two IPAC advisers join independent firm

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... financial services experience. Before becoming an adviser 15 years ago she worked in a number of roles, including at Parliament House in Canberra, accounting firms and a family public relations company. Boughton has worked in financial services for 27 ...

FoFA end marks start of new advice era

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
The passing of the last amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation puts the controversial bill to bed and marks the start of a new age for financial advisers. Years of policy tinkering and regulatory uncertainty ended last week ...

BT reveals winners of national awards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... Financial Group handed the awards to best adviser, best practice of the year and rising star at a ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra. McPhail HLG Financial Planning director and adviser Anne Graham was awarded Adviser of the Year, while the Practice ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... this morning's annual policy conference for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) held at Parliament House in Canberra, Dr David Gruen, the Commonwealth Treasury's executive director macroeconomic group, said, "the key focus of superannuation ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... this morning's annual policy conference for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) held at Parliament House in Canberra, Dr David Gruen, the Commonwealth Treasury's executive director macroeconomic group, said, "the key focus of superannuation ...

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

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... (FoFA) legislation that financial advisers will still have undefined best interests obligations. Speaking at Parliament House yesterday regarding the government's commitment to reducing red tape, Abbott said all professionals are bound by fiduciary requirements ...

ASIC to scrutinise The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... they've got a pretty good track record, but there's no secret... who their alliance is with. Common talk around Parliament House is industry super funds are very close to the Labor movement." ASIC will be expected to bring some non-partisan rigour to ...

Shorten maps out government super legacy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... for Superannuation and Financial Services, has used a speech to a Financial Services Council (FSC) dinner at Parliament House in Canberra to assertively defend the government's reform record on superannuation. Shorten listed a range of policy milestones ...

Annual fee collation too complex: FPA to PJC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... over claims the proposed annual Fee Disclosure Statement (FDS) as part of FOFA is unnecessary. Speaking at NSW Parliament House yesterday, FPA chief executive officer Mark Rantall said the fee disclosure requirement was too prescriptive and complex and ...