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SEC to run ad campaign promoting online consumer adviser checks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... free check of any authorised adviser or broker. The campaign follows the SEC stepping up its involvement in the US Department of Labor's reform proposals to introduce a universal definition of fiduciary duty that will bind all retirement intermediaries ...

ASIC silent on IOOF investigation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... concerned IOOF head of the advice research team Peter Hilton. Hilton was moved away from IOOF's top job in the research department earlier this year. IOOF appointed SFG Australia chief investment officer Matthew Drennan as group head of research. At ...

US schools should teach finlit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
... to local school boards. SIFMA has also been highly critical of federal government initiatives, being overseen by the Department of Labor, to introduce fiduciary obligations on retirement advisers arguing it will result retirement fund members having ...

US fiduciary reforms will rock pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... advice will rock the retirement fund sector. The proposal for a fiduciary advice standard is being pushed by the US Department of Labor (DOL) in its authority overseeing occupational retirement funds subject to the ERISA legislation. Lisa Bleier, managing ...

Robots will take over white collar jobs first

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... take over the tasks of medium and high-skilled workers, rather than jobs that do not require a university education, a Department of Industry paper determined. "The challenges presented by increasing automation are not limited to low-skilled positions," ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... following a review of its operating performance and after assessing the further impact of its settlement with the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, the company expected its Statutory EBITDA for the year to June 30, 2015 ...

Register to include qualifications, association membership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... adviser's qualifications and professional association memberships by March 2015, Treasury has confirmed. A statement by the department confirmed that the register will also include the adviser's name, registration number, status, and experience; the ...

Leeanne Turner wins FEAL fund executive of the year

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... executive of MTAA Super since 2011. She has worked for organisations such as AVSuper, Military Schemes Secretariat, the Department of Defence and ComSuper. The winner of the award receives a $20,000 executive education grant to allow them to take time ...

Family office model attractive to feuding families

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... breakdown in families include: a lack of communication or transparency, the preceding generation keeping control, a lack of education and inequalities amongst family members. "When considering the composition of a family office, it should not be comprised ...

PROFILE: AMP Horizons director Amelia Constantinidis

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... getting on with having a family of her own. In spite of the pressure, she took a job as a typist within the public works department and unearthed a genuine interest in computers. "Whenever there was an issue with the word processors I took an interest ...