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Frydenberg relaxed about SMSF borrowing

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... spoke widely about the parliament's tax and financial services reviews, including that, as part of the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), the government would make a measured response around problems associated with limited recourse borrowing arrangements ...

HESTA divests from Transfield

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... statement said. It also said the details of 67 incidents at Nauru are contained in the company's submission to a Senate inquiry, publicly available on the Senate's website.

New draft super governance standards released

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... Authority (APRA) regulated superannuation funds. Consistent with both the 2010 Cooper Review and the Financial System Inquiry, the Government's proposed reforms will include a requirement that all APRA-regulated superannuation funds have a minimum of ...

Senate inquiry into gender retirement income gap launched

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... gender retirement income gap are expected to be reviewed by March next year after the Senate was instructed to conduct an inquiry yesterday. A cross-party motion by Senators Jenny McAllister (Labor), Sean Edwards (Liberal) and Larissa Waters (Greens) ...

Medcraft defends ASIC record

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... Government's upcoming capability review, saying it is consistent with the A "Government's consideration of the Murray Inquiry recommendation that ASIC's regulatory activities be funded by industry as well as the other recommendations the inquiry made ...

Murray slams "silly suggestions"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
David Murray, chair of the Financial System Inquiry, has stirred the debate around super board independence, saying it has deteriorated into a "set of silly suggestions." In his final FSI report, Murray recommended that super funds appoint a majority ...

Challenger annuities join CFS platforms

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... launch of the first Comprehensive Income Product for Retirement-style solution, a recommendation by the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). Administration provider AAS also recently partnered with Challenger A to make annuities accessible on its platform ...

Frydenberg slams modern awards as poorly-conceived

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... have not fallen to expectations, given the system's substantial increase in size and scale. He noted the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) cited data showing that between 2004 and 2013, average fees only fell by 20 basis points "whereas the size of the ...

Super board changes ignore past lessons: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... suggest that any one model of board structure should be viewed as clearly preferable in all cases." Bowen accepts the Murray Inquiry recommended that a majority of directors be independent but the government's intervention in the way a fund is run must ...

FSC calls for 12% super by 2022

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... approach to define the objective of superannuation and to enshrine it in legislation as recommended by the Financial System Inquiry. "The FSC's definition of the objective of superannuation is to ensure that the majority of Australians achieve an adequate ...