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ASIC to be handed greater powers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... powers to effectively regulate the financial services sector. More than 10 months after the release of FSI chairman David Murray's final report, the government has agreed to implement most of the recommendations put forward to strengthen the industry ...

Super doing its job: Actuaries Institute

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... job, a newly published white paper from the Actuaries Institute has concluded, but Financial System Inquiry chair David Murray argues it must be removed from political intervention. The new paper, 'For Richer or Poorer', analyses for the first time the ...

Murray slams "silly suggestions"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
David Murray, chair of the Financial System Inquiry, has stirred the debate around super board independence, saying it has deteriorated into a "set of silly suggestions." In his final FSI report, Murray recommended that super funds appoint a majority ...

Industry super warns against uniform laws

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... following consultation. The move is in line with the 2010 Jeremy Cooper review of the system but doesn't go as far as the David Murray review, which sought a majority of independent trustees.

Industry needs to act after Trowbridge report failure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... now for discussing reform in the life insurance sector sits with the government as it formulates its response to David Murray's Financial Services Inquiry."

Retirement income committee to launch in June

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... include policy experts Vince Fitzgerald, Bob Officer, Elana Rubin, Andrew Podger and Patricia Pascuzzo. FSI chair David Murray and Chris Bowen MP will make keynote speeches at the forum. This announcement follows the release of the Treasury's Tax White ...

Regional banks call for FSI reforms without delay

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... an enhanced crisis management toolkit. They would also be disappointed by any government decision to ignore chair David Murray's recommendation against introducing a bank deposits insurance levy. Bank of Queensland chief executive, Jon Sutton, said they ...

ASIC penalties 'like being hit with a lettuce leaf': Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... Investment Commissions (ASIC) are so weak that they are like being hit with a lettuce leaf, Financial System Inquiry chair David Murray said. Speaking at a panel session at the ASIC summit, only two seats away from ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft, Murray ...

FSC supports longer threshold for unclaimed life insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... $550 million in 2012-2013. Loane said that the decision to change the threshold back to seven years was "backed by David Murray's Financial System Inquiry which found this would halve the number of claims." She added, "Under the three year rule there ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... significant policy processes. There will be a broad based tax review - the Tax White Paper, a government policy response to David Murray's Financial System Inquiry, reforms to lift financial adviser competency standards, completion of Mark Johnson's ...