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FoFA changes delay tax-deductible advice: Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... possibility of the implementation of tax-deductible advice, Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bernie Ripoll told Financial Standard. Ripoll argued that the draft FoFA amendments were lowering the professional standards of the ...

Sinodinos defends "speedy" FoFA legislation

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... provision of lower cost financial advice." Yesterday the Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bernie Ripoll told Financial Standard that he was concerned the proposed changes may result in reduced consumer protection and a decline ...

FoFA reforms put professional standards at risk: Ripoll

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... professional standards. Speaking to Financial Standard, Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bernie Ripoll said that it would consider any changes put forward by the government "appropriately." "We will consider if these changes ...

Ripoll rips into Abbott government's 'amateurism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
... initiative is "laughable and outrageous", according to Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bernie Ripoll. Ripoll's comments were in response to a media release sent out by Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos' office on Friday claiming ...

Shorten gives Ripoll shadow superannuation portfolio

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
Opposition leader Bill Shorten has appointed Bernie Ripoll Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation. The appointment sees the portfolio returned to a shadow ministerial level after Kevin Rudd put it under the umbrella of Treasury. This ...

APX given green light

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Bernie Ripoll announced yesterday. These changes will permit the APX to commence operating an exchange market in Australia once it has ...

Government eyes Islamic finance growth opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... delegates at the first Amanie Australia Islamic Finance Forum in Melbourne, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Bernie Ripoll said the introduction of Shariah products to the domestic market would help to create jobs and boost sustainable growth. ...

Ripoll thanks industry for reforms support

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Bernie Ripoll, yesterday thanked the financial services industry for its support of the Gillard Government's Stronger Super reforms. Speaking yesterday at the Financial Advice in Super Symposium in Melbourne ...

Government responds to proxy vote concerns

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... and Corporations Legislation Amendment (Enhancement) Bill. However, the parliamentary secretary to the Treasurer, Bernie Ripoll, has intervened to fast-track an amendment through separate legislation, the 'Corporations Amendment (Proxy Voting) Bill 2012' ...

Market solutions favoured in OTC derivative reform

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... solutions," according to a joint statement from Wayne Swan, Treasurer, Bill Shorten, Minister for Financial Services and Bernie Ripoll, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer. "The Council advises that it does not consider restrictions should be placed ...