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Aussies find $860m in lost super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... to consolidation through its ATO Online service which Australians access through the MyGov portal. ATO assistant commissioner Graham Whyte said the figures were encouraging for the tax office, given it has made concerted efforts to bring people and their ...

Treasury initiates review post RC

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... years. However, the services lean on short-term grant based funding streams, fragmented delivery and high demand. Commissioner Kenneth Hayne did not make a specific recommendation on them in his final Royal Commission report on Monday. "The desirability ...

NAB wealth exit delayed

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... Commission report, which singled out the bank and its two head executives for their leadership. In his final report, Commissioner Kenneth Hayne said he was not entirely confident the bank and its leadership had learned lessons of the past, and added ...

NAB chief executive and chair exit

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... "sustained damage" as a result of past practices and comments made in the Royal Commission's final report about them. Commissioner Kenneth Hayne lambasted the leadership of Thorburn and Henry, believing they have not learned lessons of the past. ...

NAB calls trading halt

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... released to the market. The bank was singled out in the final report of the Royal Commission released on February 4. Commissioner Kenneth Hayne criticised the leadership of chief executive Andrew Thorburn and chair Ken Henry during the final round of ...

AFCA appoints new ombudsman

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... Geoff Browne. He will become AFCA's first lead ombudsman - small business. Browne was the Victorian Small Business Commissioner from 2011 to 2016, where he decreased the number of disputes between landlords and commercial tenants and expanded engagement ...

Synchron slams RC on commissions

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... recommendations to cull commissions are causing advisers some concern, according to Synchron director Don Trapnell. On Monday, Commissioner Kenneth Hayne formally recommended an end to grandfathered commissions, and asked government to push to its current ...

APRA could oversee stalled super fund mergers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... may be that, in particular circumstances, addressing a stalled merger would be an appropriate use of such a power," Commissioner Kenneth Hayne said in his final report. The SIS Act asks that trustees of any responsible entity that offers a MySuper product ...

Royal Commission sobering and overdue: Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... profitable, they should be robust and they should be, above all, ethical," Bowen said. Labor, in principle, accepts all of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's 76 recommendations. "We would have a Treasury taskforce to work with a Shorten Labor government on ...

Platforms steady after Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... Platforms at the big four banks, AMP and IOOF can breathe a sigh of relief after the Royal Commission's final report. Commissioner Kenneth Hayne did not recommend either structural separation or wider approved product lists. And this could slow down ...