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CFA societies launch advocacy council

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... industry issues that impact investors and to support government, regulators and industry in creating a world-class financial system in Australia." In establishing the council, Serhan said CFA Societies Australia and CFA Society New Zealand wanted to ...

UniSuper develops retirement product

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... flexibility during the accumulation phase. The development of the option follows the Government's response to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), which was supportive of the recommendation calling on the superannuation industry to develop CIPRs to improve ...

Government releases adviser education legislation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... will come into effect from July 1, 2017. "These reforms, recently announced in the Government's response to the Financial System Inquiry, have widespread support across industry participants, professional bodies and consumer representatives of the need ...

Super fund governance bill enters final debate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... sensible policy which has been recommended by the Cooper Review under the Labor government and by David Murray's Financial System Inquiry."

Senate to investigate white-collar crime

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
The Senate will start an inquiry into penalties for white-collar crime, following calls from regulators and Financial System Inquiry chair David Murray to strengthen the system. The Senate voted yesterday in favour of a Greens motion to establish the ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... Properly calibrating the superannuation system is the most important policy change from the Murray review of the financial system. Super could be sharper, leaner and easier to understand. That's why the Murray proposals to define the objective of superannuation ...

ME and mutuals must embrace fintech

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... six key trends benefitting mutuals including: a more competitive position due to the impact of changes from the Financial System Inquiry (FSI); constraints on lending growth across the banking sector requiring consumers and investors to look at alternatives ...

SMSFs welcome no dumping of LRBAs

DARREN SNYDER  |  SUNDAY, 8 NOV 2015
... can take advantage of future retirement income developments. Yesterday the government said it will support the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) recommendation that calls for super trustees to select Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement (CIPRs). ...

Banks face wealth management challenges

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... portion of the population currently unadvised, a sector rebuilding trust and no let-up in the complexity of our financial system, robo-advice offerings have the potential to make financial advice more accessible to more people and provide increased consistency ...

SMSFs and infrastructure a good investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... or "high dollar price tags," there is room to move for SMSF investment. "As we said in our submission to the Financial System Inquiry, options include offering unitised investments in smaller parcels - our recommended figure was $25,000 - or infrastructure ...