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HESTA chief advocates better tax reform

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... provide a universal access to savings in retirement not to replace the Age Pension safety net." HESTA supports the senate inquiry to address women's superannuation adequacy issues and will make a submission to calling for reforms to ensure a more equitable ...

CBA whistleblower flags unfair compensation

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... the water." A CBA spokesperson replied to the news on October 28, saying, "We reject allegations presented to the Senate Inquiry today and stand by the independence and integrity of the Open Advice Review program. We welcome scrutiny of the program and ...

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.

Senate inquiry into gender retirement income gap launched

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
Issues around Australia's 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) ...

Super groups call for women Senate review

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
Superannuation representative groups have backed calls by federal Greens MP Adam Bandt for a Senate inquiry looking at the problem of women's retirement savings. Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Tom Garcia believes ...

More calls for Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... director Christopher Kelaher was asked about why he never reported alleged wrongdoings to ASIC. When Kelaher faced the Senate inquiry into financial advice he said claims of widespread wrongdoing at IOOF had no basis in fact. Other IOOF representatives ...

Labor now opposes advice Royal Commission

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). "For the meantime, the current Senate inquiry is the appropriate place to continue to examine the roles of ASIC, financial planners, and to talk to victims, some of whom ...

Industry waiting on Frydenberg for adviser education guidance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... waiting on newly-appointed Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg to make public the government's position on the Senate inquiry into adviser education standards. Financial Planning Association (FPA) general manager of policy and conduct Dante De Gori told ...

FPA sets sights on lifting professional standards

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... and professional standards. The FPA welcomes this and we are pleased to see that the Financial System Inquiry, Senate Inquiry into the Performance of ASIC and most recently the PJC Inquiry have widely supported the measures we called for in the FPA 10 ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... investigation. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann took over, sought more consultation and took FoFA through yet another Senate inquiry. In June, the Senate Economics Committee issued a report that was broadly supportive of the Coalition's proposed amendments. ...