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Labor opposes super trustee governance bill

DARREN SNYDER | TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015

Labor senators Sam Dastyari and Chris Ketter have dissented from a report recommending the bill on superannuation trustee governance be passed in the Senate today. The dissenting senators believe the bill "blindly conflates and confuses trustee governance ...

Claims of wrongdoing have no basis: IOOF

DARREN SNYDER | TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015

... culture and claims of widespread wrongdoing have no basis of fact," Kelaher said. For the most part of the morning, Labor Senator Sam Dastyari quizzed Kelaher about when he knew of front-running, absence of an asset register and plagiarism allegations ...

IOOF execs asked to face Senate

LAURA MILLAN | FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015

... accept or be able to appear in front of the Committee, given the short notice of the invite; a spokesperson for Labor Senator Sam Dastyari told Financial Standard. If IOOF refuses to appear, "the Economics Committee can elevate the invite to a formal ...

Lawyer slams NAB compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN | FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015

... Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry. However, following the bank's appointment of Kingsford Smith, Committee chair and Labor Senator Sam Dastyari told Financial Standard : "I am pleased to hear that NAB has taken this step after the repeated urgings ...

NAB upgrades advice compensation program

LAURA MILLAN | THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015

... Committee during a public hearing in Canberra as part of the Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry. Committee chair and Labor Senator Sam Dastyari told NAB chief executive: "Mr Thorburn, you throw around the word 'independent'. There is nothing independent ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN | FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015

... explain what went wrong in their advice divisions at a public Senate hearing in Canberra on Tuesday. Chaired by Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, the Senate Economics Committee will interrogate Macquarie Group chief executive Nicolas Moore and head of banking ...

NAB to face Senate grilling over advice scandal

LAURA MILLAN | FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015

... why we called this hearing is because we want to get to the bottom of this issue with NAB as soon as possible," Labor Senator and Committee chair Sam Dastyari told the media minutes before the hearing. Reports in Fairfax Media of persistent bad behaviour ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH | FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014

... inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Committee (ASIC). The inquiry, chaired by Labor Senator Mark Bishop, grilled ASIC commissioners and CBA executives equally. By the end of the Senate investigation, the reputation ...

FoFA disallowance could put industry into breach of law

LAURA MILLAN | WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014

... reference to Lambie's move, Cormann noted that "public policy is getting caught up in internal party in-fighting." Labor Senator Sam Dastiary argued that "this is an important, timely and necessary debate," and asked the government to sit with the opposition ...

Questions raised about ANZ and Timbercorp

LAURA MILLAN | FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014

... said that in January 2007 he was aware that Timbercorp's grape, olive, citrus and mango projects "were in trouble." Labor Senator and chair of the inquiry Sam Dastyari pointed to a key question that ANZ will have to answer either in its submission or ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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