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FEATURE: Adviser education

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... firms, as well as education and professional bodies, is that a professional financial adviser should be personally accountable; educated to degree standard; experienced; a Certified Financial Planner (or working towards certification); and working for ...

Vertical integration not important anymore: Murray

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... to fill industry superannuation boards with a majority of independent directors as these directors will not be as accountable to fund members and employers." While Murray highlighted that the recommendation seeks to improve super fund governance, TWU ...

Industry braces for majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... decision making by bringing an objective perspective to issues the board considers. They also hold other directors accountable for their conduct, particularly in relation to conflicts of interest." If implemented, this policy would bring Australian superannuation ...

Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... Australians." He also said trust and transparency will become increasingly important as pension funds become increasingly accountable to consumers. "The tides of accountability for ensuring financial security in retirement are shifting from State and ...

New Investors Mutual LIC gets rating and platform approval

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... of Anton Tagliaferro and Simon Conn as value investors across the market capitalisation spectrum" with the "highly accountable performance driven investment culture and boutique structure" also being of note. Zenith said: "IML's philosophy is ideally ...

Industry funds and corporates must talk more: Sherry

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... responsibility on trustees, while new reporting and disclosure requirements, he said, would make trustees' even more accountable to their members on how their funds are being managed. "Attitudes today on environmental issues, sustainability, social reporting ...

CEOs face pay cuts: report

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... 'two-strikes' rule, which came into effect on July 1, 2011 under the Corporations Act that was designed to hold directors accountable for executives salaries and bonuses. The 'two-strikes' rule allows shareholders to force re-election of an entire company ...

Trio fraud victims demand compensation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2012
... in their interests. New reforms will ensure the financial sector operates better, more informatively and [be] more accountable than pre Trio," he said. He said he wasn't necessarily advocating that there be restrictions on the types of people allowed ...

Aussie funds fail transparency test

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... "Financial advisers get caught in between. On the one hand we are trying to do as much research as we can, and we are held accountable for our recommendations. But on the other hand it's incredibly difficult and time consuming to do research properly." ...

FPA defends turf, looks to HNW

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... with through better regulation of products and not advisers. "We no longer want to see just the advisers being held accountable, for a failure of a product or for the wrongdoing of auditors or directors. We think everyone has proportional accountability ...