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CBA needs to"lift its game": Treasurer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... and we want to ensure that investors are as safe as they can be in a market economy," he said. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann dampened ideas about the possibility of an independent judiciary inquiry or a Royal Commission and referred to the dissenting ...

Government plays down support for royal commission

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... things, and we want to ensure that investors are as safe as they can be in a market economy." Finance Minister Matthias Cormann also dampened ideas about the possibility of a deeper investigation and made comments aftre reading a 'dissenting report' ...

Ripoll labels Cormann's FoFA changes "a stunt"

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... ban commissions in financial advice. What a stunt. Commissions have already been banned," Ripoll tweeted shortly after Cormann released a response to the Senate Economics Committee report on the government's proposed changes to the Future of Financial ...

Advisers applaud "historic" ban on commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... Planning Association (FPA) chief executive Mark Rantall said. Rantall spoke shortly after Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann issued a response statement to the Senate Economics Committee report on the government's proposed changes to FoFA. "It is a ...

Government to pass most FoFA changes through regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... through regulation first, despite Labor and the Greens strong opposition to the amendments. Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann issued a response to the Senate Economics Committee report about the government's proposed amendments to FoFA. "The government's ...

Cormann ready to issue views on Senate FoFA report

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
Minister of Finance Mathias Cormann is ready to issue a response to the Senate Economics Committee report on the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reform. A spokesperson for the Minister confirmed to Financial Standard that "the government will announce ...

Senate report supportive of government FoFA reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... anticipating the next phase of the FoFA reforms which rests now with the Coalition government and Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann," Rantall said. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief operating officer Phil Anderson also welcomed the ...

EQT receives approval for ANZ Trustees acquisition

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... has received the ministerial approval required for the acquisition of ANZ Trustees. Acting Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann has provided the approval, the company told the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). "As such, the sale and purchase agreement ...

Treasury consults on unclaimed monies time window

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... policies are transferred to the government. In releasing the discussion paper this week, Finance minister Senator Mathias Cormann said the current arrangements introduced by the previous Labor government in 2012 shortening the period that triggered the ...

CBA, CSSA promote FoFA legal loophole

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... continuation of the dual business model. However, since then Arthur Sinodinos has been replaced by the less-accessible Mathias Cormann, and Latto is not as optimistic. "I think we've got a reasonable chance on this. Senator Cormann does understand the ...