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Industry groups ecstatic over red tape rationalisation proposals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
... 'regulate first, ask questions later' mindset." Richard Gilbert, chief executive of the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA), said, "These reform recommendations are overwhelmingly positive, necessary and welcome." Even the Financial ...

Super funds to inject $1.5bn more into Aussie hedge funds

... in hedge funds over the next two to five years. Crucially, Kim Ivey, chair of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Australia, which commissioned the report, drew on the survey to suggest that the super funds will pour more into Australian ...

Ten days or less to act on requests: ASFA

... within 10 days of receiving requests to transfer superannuation benefits, according to guidelines just released by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). ASFA has released a best practice paper called "Transfer, Rollover and Cashing ...

ASIC pulls up reverse mortgage award winner

... mortgage industry group, SEQUAL, to encourage industry moves to address consumer concerns." SEQUAL is a voluntary association and the sector's only governing body, but ABN Amro's head of reverse mortgages, Martin Lynch, said this is a sign that the sector's ...

Regulatory reform next on the agenda: Treasury

In a speech to the Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners conference, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Chris Pearce said the key issues for the industry and the Government in the short term were revising the regulatory environment ...

AIOFP signs up OFM as reverse mortgage provider

Financial services group OFM has signed up the Australian Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) to be their preferred supplier of reverse mortgage products. AIOFP chief executive officer, Peter Johnston, said the group chose ...

Daily economic update

... consumer's balance sheet. Another worrying development, this time on the US housing market, is that the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that the level of mortgage payments overdue by 90 days increased to a 20 year high of 1.02 per cent while ...

Industry backs tax cut recommendation

... political, investment and infrastructure issues to carry it forward," he said. The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) CEO, Richard Gilbert, has also put his weight behind the recommendations, calling them a "major step" in prompting ...

Advice is cheap compared to tax return fees

... lodging tax returns. Reinforcing this, Michael D'Ascenzo, commissioner of taxation, told the Australasian Tax Teachers' Association in a major speech in January that 1.3 million Australians now either lodge their tax returns directly or through the e-tax ...

Daily economic update

... doubts on views that the US housing market is slowing and is inconsistent with the decline in the Mortgage Bankers Association application index - reported earlier this week. If the US housing sector - one of the major drivers of growth - does not slow ...