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Royal commission must look at 'full picture': TWUSUPER CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... well supported by employer associations. Many people forget that it's not a union fund, it's an industry fund. Look at our board: we've got employer associations represented across it." Unlike fellow industry fund Cbus, TWUSUPER appears to have come ...

Robots will take over white collar jobs first

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... replaced by robots. In the finance world, the report noted that "a robot has even been appointed as director to an investment board." The analysis explained that robots have trouble with basic skills such as climbing stairs, but perform well when it ...

MetLife US proactive lobbying lesson for Aust

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... that under the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) set up as part of the Frank-Dodd Act that the Federal Reserve Board has designated MetLife alongside leading banks as a Strategically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) requiring extra prudential ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... consider what information is made available, whether advice is needed or not, and whether the distributor has to take that on board," Murray said. "Once that is in place, vertical integration doesn't matter anymore," he added. He attributed the heated ...

Industry funds reject majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... AustralianSuper, meanwhile, declined to comment. Industry fund MTAA Super's independent chair John Brumby, who presides over a board which has a third independent directors, said he believes the third-third-third model is the most appropriate. Brumby ...

Former Moody's analyst guilty of insider trading

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... communicated inside information relating to upcoming price-sensitive announcements contemplated by the Australian Wheat Board and procured Stoner to short sell 135,000 AWB CFDs. The men will be sentenced in the Supreme Court of NSW on 27 April 2015. ...

Industry braces for majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... governance," the report stated. "Independent directors improve decision making by bringing an objective perspective to issues the board considers. They also hold other directors accountable for their conduct, particularly in relation to conflicts of ...

Murray calls for ASIC to have more money and power

MARK SMITH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... improve how regulations are made and reviewed." He also called for the establishment of a Financial Regulator Assessment Board to review performance annually, include an explicit requirement to consider competition in ASIC's mandate and conduct three-yearly ...

Rename general advice, disclose ownership: FSI

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... competency standards have been a feature of the industry for a substantial length of time, and change is needed across the board," the final report said. "Although the Inquiry does not recommend a national exam for advisers, this could be considered ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... it. So say as many times as you like that the FSI is a "report to government not a report by government," Murray and his board have thrown down one of the biggest and toughest policy reform gauntlets any government has seen in decades. There is no better ...