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Sentry Group slams LICG's "opportunistic attack"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... Sentry Group chief executive and chair Murray Hills has criticised the Life Insurance Consumer Group's "attack" on the Association of Financial Advisers in an open letter. Directed to the financial services industry, the letter admitted that Sentry believes ...

Majority of Australians without financial plan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... have enough money to retire compared to 40% of baby boomers, according to new research from the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA). The 'Dare to Dream' research conducted ahead of the 16th annual financial planning week revealed more than ...

Police super a budget beneficiary

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... Police was most recently flagged in the Senate's inquiry in to economic security for women in retirement. The Police Association of New South Wales' submission said the death and disability insurance scheme disadvantaged officers in their ability to ...

Pension funds globally face solvency issues

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... adviser to the secretary-general for financial markets, Adrian Blundell-Wignall. Opening a global pension summit at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) annual conference in Brisbane this morning, Blundell-Wignall said globally ...

Confused and confounded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... maintaining the status quo on monetary policy. Sure, the Street was disappointed, hence the adverse reaction. The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) even put numbers on this disappointment: "...special question asked AAII members (many ...

Cuts to ASIC and ATO push industry to self-regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... will also be sold and proceeds for the sale will be reinvested in the Asset Recycling Fund. The Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of policy and conduct Dante De Gori said that the organisation will be paying "close attention to the ...

Sinodinos aims at "fixing the messes" inherited from Labor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... like coming home." The Senator will be formally addressing the financial services industry for the first time at the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Conference next week, but Sinodinos has already commented on some of the issues affecting the ...

Abbott sticks to his promise on SMSF regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... two years, so we are happy to wait and see what happens," Forsyth told Financial Standard. The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) director of Technical and Professional Standards Graeme Colley said that the role that SMSFs are playing ...

Super likely to fall under Treasury

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... look forward to working constructively on the detail of the changes that have been announced." The Financial Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall also welcomed the appointments and hoped that the new government "has a window to develop ...

ASIC finds hedge funds pose no systemic risk

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... the Australian hedge fund industry today, which convenes in Sydney today for the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)'s annual forum. Hedge funds ASIC identified account for only a small share of Australia's $2.1 trillion managed funds ...