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MLC partners with SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... advice accreditation, training and support. Under the scheme, MLC and NAB licensees who attain SPAA accreditation and membership will gain access to special NAB Wealth and SPAA training events. MLC and SPAA will also work together on research and trustee ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... all major advice businesses except for ANZ announced they would increase their own standards and establish mandatory membership of advice associations for their planners. Risk at risk Australia's group life insurance sector has experienced an increase ...

Royal commission must look at 'full picture': TWUSUPER CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... are doing a balanced review. And at times there is more of a political agenda." He went on: "We need to focus on our membership, deliver to our membership, and not having somebody else running different agendas through it." In its latest submission ...

Industry funds reject majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... be some merit in the argument that as funds increasingly make use of their public offer status, and thus grow their membership beyond their original industry, the equal representation may cease to be so relevant. "If funds are going to keep evolving ...

Industry braces for majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... funds exercise choice, directors appointed by employer and employee groups are less likely to represent the broader membership of public offer funds. Given the diversity of fund membership, it is more important for directors to be independent, skilled ...

Register to include qualifications, association membership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... applicable. Treasury made the statement public following media information that the register would not include adviser membership of a professional association or qualifications. "The register of financial advisers will enable investors, employers and ...

CBA chairman defends compensation program at AGM

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... changes implemented within the bank's advice divisions over the past year, which include mandatory industry association membership for all advisers and managers, improved document management and changes to the remuneration structure. Regarding the Open ...

Equip to manage AustSuper's defined benefit schemes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... benefit schemes represent around 2000 members and $700 million in assets. AustralianSuper's group executive for membership Paul Schroder said defined benefit had become a relatively small and increasingly expensive niche within Australian Super's ...

Government clarifies adviser register funding

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
The government's public register of financial advisers will raise $5 million over the next four years by increasing the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensee annual lodgement fee with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ...

Arthur's back. Wait, no he's not

COLIN BRINSDEN, AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
The Abbott government's announcement of an improved register for the beleaguered practitioners was marred by an embarrassing blunder. Treasury was forced to issue a rare apology after mistakenly making the announcement under the name of suspended frontbencher ...