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Women outperforming all men boardrooms

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... but declining numbers in women studying technology is a major one. The Diversity Index launch was attended by federal senator and Human Services Minister Marise Payne, senator and Shadow Minister for Women Claire Moore, and senator Larissa Waters. Senator ...

NAB to take "leading role" in advice remediation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... compensation gap for victims of poor financial advice. NAB advice client Veronica Coulston was raised as a specific example by Senator Nick Xenophon, who said that she had been "short-changed" by NAB's compensation process. Thorburn said that NAB would ...

Sacked Macquarie advisers still in the industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... using to cheat on their exams: "There is no evidence that it existed at all," he said. Moore was reminded that Nationals Senator John Williams personally gave a copy of the file to Macquarie employees. Moore answered: "You gave us an answer sheet to ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... explain what went wrong in their advice divisions at a public Senate hearing in Canberra on Tuesday. Chaired by Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, the Senate Economics Committee will interrogate Macquarie Group chief executive Nicolas Moore and head of banking ...

NAB to face Senate grilling over advice scandal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... why we called this hearing is because we want to get to the bottom of this issue with NAB as soon as possible," Labor Senator and Committee chair Sam Dastyari told the media minutes before the hearing. Reports in Fairfax Media of persistent bad behaviour ...

Nationals pressure Treasury for RC into white collar crime

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
Nationals' Senator John Williams has given Treasury the suggested terms of reference for a Royal Commission into white collar crime. Williams confirmed to Financial Standard that he gave the documents to Treasurer Joe Hockey's chief of staff two weeks ...

Assistant Treasurer Sinodinos resigns

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 DEC 2014
... frontbench as early as this weekend. "I will be resigning as assistant treasurer with effect from close of business today," Senator Sinodinos said in a statement on Friday. He had stood aside from the role to give evidence in NSW Independent Commission ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Committee (ASIC). The inquiry, chaired by Labor Senator Mark Bishop, grilled ASIC commissioners and CBA executives equally. By the end of the Senate investigation, the reputation ...

Labor asks for bipartisan consensus on FSI super issues

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation in an effort to lift standards in the financial planning industry. Greens' Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said that "the Murray Inquiry recommendations are a big warning sign to the government on their pursuit ...

Cormann to keep up the FoFA fight

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... its attempts to disallow the government's changes to the FoFA legislation. At the final hour Palmer United Party (PUP) senator Jacqui Lambie joined Labor and the Greens in a new alliance of independents. The Motoring Enthusiast Party's Ricky Muir, also ...