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FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
This year has been another busy one for the financial servives industry. FoFA remained on the radar and the Financial System Inquiry has the potential to change things in a big way. The Financial Standard team takes a look at the issues that made waves ...

SPAA "disappointed" by the FSI's SMSF borrowing recommendations

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
The SMSF Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA) has rejected the Financial System Inquiry's (FSI) recommendation that the government reinstate the prohibition on direct borrowing for limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs) by superannuation ...

Senate grills ASIC after it blocks 250,000 websites

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will face a Senate grilling after blocking a quarter of a million websites when it was seeking to prevent access to sites associated with investment fraud. A public hearing by the Senate Communications ...

Healthcare investment options limited despite Medibank IPO

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
The Medibank initial public offering (IPO) boosted Australia's healthcare investment offering, but it also highlighted shortfalls in the local market. The offer raised $5.679 billion, making it the second largest float on record in Australia after Telstra ...

QSuper appoints Decimal as advice platform provider

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
QSuper has appointed Decimal Software Limited as the software platform provider for its scaled advice operations. Decimal's platform will provide QSuper members with the option for limited financial advice with real time process and compliance management. ...

Industry bodies must avoid duplicating work: ASFA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
Superannuation industry bodies must be on their guard against duplicating the same work and consider merging if duplication is taking place, according to Association of Superannuation Funds of Australian (ASFA) chief executive Pauline Vamos. "I think ...

Super funds must justify not merging: APRA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
Superannuation funds that decide not to consolidate must justify their decision to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) over the next year, according to APRA member Helen Rowell. Rowell said super funds need to question their own viability ...

CBA chairman defends compensation program at AGM

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chairman David Turner defended the bank's performance and its reaction to the financial planning scandals in front of shareholders at the annual general meeting in Melbourne yesterday. "We know that saying sorry is not enough ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following a subdued performance on Wall Street with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P500 flat in late afternoon trading. At 0905 AEST on Wednesday, the December share price index futures ...

Scale not what it used to be

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
The SelectingSuper awards shortlist for 2014 shows that scale isn't the factor it once was. The 2014 SelectingSuper awards are on again next week in Melbourne and an analysis of the shortlisted finalists shows that boutique and mid-sized funds make ...