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Ditch retail prospectuses in some cases, say leading lawyers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... dumping retail investment product providers obligations to issue prospectuses as the quid pro-quo for continuous disclosure, a panel of leading finance industry lawyers has said. The proposal surfaced following the release of the interim Financial System ...

CBA appoints international experts to oversee advice program

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... chief executive officer Eugene Ludwig and vice chair of the group's advisory board Mary Schapiro will also be a part of the panel. Ludwig served under United States President Bill Clinton comptroller of the Currency, the head of the federal agency responsible ...

Super tax in firing line

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... income strategy for Australia and New Zealand Su-Lin Ong and ASPAC-KPMG head of financial services Simon Gleave. The expert panel debated everything from the slowdown in China to housing bubble fears. Ong expressed concern about a surprise jump in domestic ...

Integrate next-gen insurance policies into NDIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... disability and healthcare challenges but maybe it should be. That was the question posed by FSC chief economist James Bond to a panel of insurance and legal experts who convened to discuss how the life insurance sector could integrate into the National ...

FSC Conference: Industry urged to prepare for Asia Passport pilot

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... Region Funds Passport if the long-term existence of the scheme is to be guaranteed. That was the consensus of an expert panel gathered at the FSC's annual conference in Cairns. The panel included Liz Gray, a partner at global law firm K&L Gates with ...

Folkestone acquires land for planned community

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... Metropolitan Planning Authority and the Victorian Minister for Planning, following the completion in April 2014 of an Independent Panel Report into the PSP3. The Project is being acquired on a staged settlement basis with a series of payments required ...

In the throes of change

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... Treasurer Chris Bowen MP both speaking at the conference. With regulation front of mind for an advocacy organisation, one panel session will feature the country's key regulators - ASIC's deputy chair Peter Kell,A APRA's deputy chair Ian Laughlin and ...

Abetz backed FSC in case against FWC, Federal Court reveals

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... Minister Eric Abetz in its Federal Court case against the constitution of the Fair Work Commission's superannuation expert panel, it has emerged. On Friday the Federal Court published the reasons for its judgment that the Fair Work Commission Expert ...

FSC report warns of default super 'turmoil'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... super funds," Whiteley said. The review process was put on hold in June following a Federal Court ruling that the FWC expert panel was incorrectly constituted. The FWC is currently waiting for Employment Minister Eric Ebetz to appoint a new expert to ...

CBA whistleblower casts doubts over compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... before and [I've] been told 'you have no claim'," he added. Speaking about the bank's move to set up an independent review panel headed by High Court judge Ian Callinan, he predicted that "most clients are not going to make it that far." "What you need ...