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Cormann freezes FoFA amendments

MARK SMITH, ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... amendments last month and the legality of passing changes through regulation has also been questioned. Industry Super Australia Chief Executive David Whiteley said this afternoon that the intervention of the Minister was a timely circuit breaker and ...

Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... expenditure represents less than 1% of total expenditure. When in February Financial Standard reported that Industry Super Australia (ISA) spent more than $9 million on advertising in 2013, the story attracted a number of comments from readers critical ...

Industry receives FoFA bill with mixed feelings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... potential comeback of commissions through this kind of advice as AFA advisers provide personal advice. Industry Super Australia (ISA) chief executive David Whiteley said that the reforms "will do more harm than good for the financial advice industry ...

Cormann to take over Sinodinos' duties

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... around the issues affecting financial advice, so we feel very comfortable with the change," Fox said. Industry Super Australia (ISA) also welcomed the change and its chief executive David Whiteley noted that "with Senator Cormann we have a Minister who ...

Labor hopes to disallow FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... important protection for consumers and were arrived at after extensive consultation." In a letter to Industry Super Australia chief executive David Whiteley, opposition treasury spokesperson Chris Bowen said the government's decision to push the amendments ...

FoFA introduced into parliament with some tweaks

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... planning community to prohibit the re-introduction of commissions on investments and superannuation." Industry Super Australia (ISA) executive David Whiteley said that the FoFA reform bill would do more harm than good for the financial advice industry ...

FoFA changes no threat to best interest duty: lawyer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... clients." The advice obtained by the FSC directly contradicts that provided by Arnold Block Leibler to Industry Super Australia (ISAs). Amongst other objections, ISA's advice said the removal of the catch-all provision would take away the onus on advisers ...

Super is now an economic driver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) will argue to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) that superannuation is now a mature contributor to the Australian economy and should be integrated into the nation's economy's macro management infrastructure. The ISA claim ...

PC examines Weaven's 'inverted bid' infra model

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
The Productivity Commission (PC) has given qualified support to Industry Super Australia's (ISA's) 'inverted bid' model for investing in greenfield infrastructure projects in its draft report on public infrastructure. Informally known as the 'Weaven ...

PC calls for overhaul of public infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... than they address." The PC was more favourably inclined towards the inverted bid system advocated by Industry Super Australia, whereby a long-term investor would be involved from the beginning of a new infrastructure project. ISA chief investment officer ...