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CIPR discussion paper by year's end

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... advice. "No-one would actually be defaulted in to a CIPR. The government's intent and the recommendation from the Murray inquiry was that in order to decide to take up a CIPR that was offered by a trustee, an individual would need to make an active choice," ...

Terms of reference released for complaints system review

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... bodies, and regional and consumer representatives. "This review builds on the government's response to the Financial System Inquiry which sets out a suite of policies to improve Australia's financial system," O'Dwyer said. The review will make recommendations ...

Super industry bodies unite over adequacy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... retirement." As it stands, the federal government is keen to legislate super's objective as recommended by the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) - being "to provide income in retirement to substitute or supplement the Age Pension." The industry consensus ...

IOOF advice nets $1.3bn in FY16

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... the next financial year." IOOF's positive results are bolstered by ASIC's recent announcement that it had finalised its inquiry into the group, finding that in the case of alleged insider trading, "the release of the research reports had no material ...

Treasurer ignored credit warnings: Bowen

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... that's the wrong question: we plan to be proactive." To illustrate, he noted Labor's support for the Financial System Inquiry reforms, saying they had "bipartisan support." He still criticised the Coalition for not moving forward fast enough, though ...

Nationals senator not giving up on life insurance investigation

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... re-elected, I can guarantee you I will be seeing to reinstate inquiries - one will be the Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry. If the committee continues, we'll be keeping the life insurance investigation open, because we keep seeing terrible stories ...

ASIC finalises IOOF inquiry

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
ASIC has concluded its inquiry into allegations of insider trading and governance breaches made against IOOF. In the case of insider trading, where an IOOF employee was alleged to have traded in securities prior to the release of IOOF's research report ...

Suncorp banking and wealth CEO to step down

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... industry level, John took a leading role in the Suncorp Bank and Joint Regional Banks Submission to the Finance Sector Inquiry led by David Murray, successfully establishing the need for an even playing field for all banks. "I'm sure John will continue ...

PROFILE: FSC chief executive Sally Loane

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... credit, though, she describes that day in positive terms. "It was the day David Murray brought down the Financial System Inquiry," she recalls, "and I saw the FSC team burst into a well-oiled machine. Obviously, the FSC under John Brogden and Andrew ...

Foreign managers priced out of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... charged globally as evidenced in a study of FSC members managing $7 trillion which we produced for the Financial System Inquiry." In some ways, this is unsurprising, given the wider aversion towards super fees in Australia; Financial Standard has previously ...