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OneVue pitches Managed Accounts to industry funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... investors, but rather the greater control and flexibility that comes with it," she said. "While there has been a lot of debate around the suitability and flexibility of certain types of super funds, we believe you should be able to retain your industry ...

Wake-up call for watchdog after inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... town." On top of the specific recommendations that the report is likely to address, the inquiry has prompted a broader debate on the regulator's role. "There are two types of regulators: the proactive and the reactive," Minter Ellison partner Maged Girgis ...

US fight over adviser fiduciary rules nears end

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
While debate in the US wealth management sector regarding improved fiduciary responsibilities for advisers appears to approaching resolution, the price of this resolution is that it has retreated back to just improved disclosure rules. The Wall Street ...

FSC lobbies against super "7 year gap"

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... Age of Responsibility, Reinventing Bretton Woods Conference,' in Washington this week. Hockey's words reinvigorated the debate about the potential for lifting the pension age to 70. Commenting on this, Brogden said that it would be the government actuaries' ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... as money 'locked up' and at the mercy of government," it said. CEPAR's brings up the question of state enterprise in a debate that has generally focused exclusively on private enterprise.

Bouncy bouncy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... head Christian Noyer added that, "The stronger the euro is, the more accommodative policy is needed." We could discuss, debate, discourse, disagree to agree, agree to disagree about the rationality/effectiveness of CB money printing/asset purchases but ...

Hockey signals pension age might climb to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... existing company tax. Hockey said, "alternatively that is more than all the revenue collected by our GST," implying that the debate around increasing and broadening the GST base is not a significant enough structural policy change to address the much ...

PROFILE: Bernie Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
As the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) debate rages on, Shadow Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bernie Ripoll looks back at its inception. Laura Millan A reports. At the beginning, the future of financial advice was in the hands of Bernie ...

AFA focuses FSI submission on FoFA "misinformation campaign"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... competitive landscape for financial advice. The association began its submission expressing "dismay and alarm" over the debate about Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) amendments and the way that this played out in the media. The AFA complained that the ...

ICAA questions AFSL system, calls for individual licensing

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... important to settle on regulation that while protecting consumers, is both practical and designed to last. The ongoing debate over the FoFA reforms is not assisting in delivering one of the original policy objectives - to improve trust and confidence ...