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Law must change on corporate actions automation: DST

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
... world. The industry is lobbying. There is a corporate actions working group run by the Australian Custodial Services Association." "Whilst that working group has made some good strides towards automation, there's still plenty of work to be done," he ...

APRA releases final SuperStream reporting standards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... separate issues raised in the consultation period by three industry groups: the Financial Services Council (FSC), the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). On the subject ...

FPA to lobby against FoFA redundancy

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will lobby to take the opt-in requirement and other redundancies out of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms as soon as the government issues its proposal to amend the legislation. "Opt-in is redundant ...

Martin Codina to join BT

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... Markets for the past four years and he was previously senior policy manager at the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA).

FPA expects TASA to require "massive" efforts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) expects the advice industry and the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) to go through "a massive matching process" to determine competency requirements for advisers under the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA). FPA chief ...

Kinetic Super appoints director to replace Fisher

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
Kinetic Super has appointed Nancy Fox as a board director following the departure of the fund's founder, Ross Fisher, who is retiring after over 20 years. Fox will join the board as an employer representative. She has extensive board experience, including ...

CFSGAM commits to published stewardship principles

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... growing increasingly large. The first Stewardship Code was launched in the UK in 2010 with support of the UK National Association of Pension Funds and other leading global investors. Since then, a number of other jurisdictions have also codified stewardship ...

Government to discuss alternative funding for LISC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... of the low income superannuation contribution (LISC). Industry bodies including Industry Super Australia (ISA), the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and Women in Super ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Philip Lowe is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at an International Association for Research on Income and Wealth (IARIW) and University of New South Wales (UNSW) Conference. In equities news, Aristocrat ...

Actuaries Institute names new CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013