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Reverse mortgage regulation lacks cohesion

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
Regulation is one of the key talking points around the equity release and reverse mortgage industry, but the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) conference last week heard that no one body yet has the jurisdiction to regulate ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
Following on from his comments that the Australian Government would look towards backing local candidates ahead of importing skills, Prime Minister John Howard said the skills shortage had arisen as a result of good management by the government, while ...

Accountants embrace SMSF automation: SuperCentral

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2006
Accountants have been flocking to the online self-managed super fund (SMSF) trust deed update service SuperCentral, with 500 funds on the system after just two months in operation. SuperCentral allows accountants to update and maintain trust deeds online. ...

Westpac warned for misleading advertising

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
Westpac Banking Corporation has been rapped over the knuckles and will review its advertising after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) deemed an advertising campaign misleading. The problem centres around an advertising campaign ...

Westpac Staff Super changes its SRI policy on uranium

Westpac Staff Super has dropped its Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) policy ban on uranium mining stocks, to exclude only those companies who mine it 'directly' for weapons manufacture. The change to the company's SRI policy, in place since August ...

Third operator of early release super scheme punished

... Corporations Act, the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act, or the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations deem otherwise. The regulator's actions follow Federal Court interlocutory injunctions granted earlier against Heard and the other ...

Mariner parks infrastructure trust at Opera House

Financial services group Mariner has launched an infrastructure trust with the Sydney Opera House's car par as its principal asset and offering tax deferred returns of up to 19.8 per cent. The Mariner Infrastructure Trust No.1 was made possible after ...

APRA bans MD

APRA has disqualified former managing director of Rural and General Insurance Aaron Stephenson from any participation as a director or senior manager of a general insurer authorised non-operating holding company, or as a senior manager or agent of a ...

Westpac top in social responsibility

Westpac was the only company to earn an AAA rating from independent ratings agency RepuTex's research program to assess Australia's top 100 companies in the areas of corporate governance, workplace practices, social impact, and environmental impact. ...

Reporting requirement relief for employer-sponsored super products

ASIC has eased the reporting requirements under the Corporation Act 2001 for certain employer-sponsored superannuation products relating to lodging 'in-use' notices to the regulatory body. Currently a Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) or Supplementary ...