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Medcraft defends ASIC record

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... said the regulator is "effective and efficient within the resources we have" in a speech to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services. He welcomed the Government's upcoming capability review, saying it is consistent with ...

China FTA gives Australia "first mover advantage"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... companies a competitive edge that their peers in the United States or Japan don't have. Speaking in front of the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties on behalf of the funds management sector, Financial Services Council (FSC) director of ...

Industry giants ramp up adviser ethics training

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... principal consultant John Neil told Financial Standard. He said that the program was set up "following the Parliamentary Joint Commission review of financial advice, which included a range of recommendations such as lifting the education standards for ...

Asteron discusses alternative commission structure

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... that level. The model forms part of Asteron Life's submission to the federal government for the parliamentary joint committee on lifting professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry. Vilo reportedly said Asteron has ...

FEATURE: Adviser education

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... benchmark for the professional standards of financial advisers. In its latest submission to the federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on lifting professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry, Finsia called for the introduction ...

ISA and AIST want changes to professionalism model

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... professional and ethical standards in the financial services industry. In their joint submission to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the issue, both ISA and AIST believe work on increasing education standards should be separated from the development ...

Bank results underpin wealth management new era

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... number of major reviews and inquiries into their culture and behaviour in the past. At the moment, a Parliamentary Joint Committee into financial advice, the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) and the Trowbridge report into risk advice are raising questions ...

Banking and super groups back parliamentary recommendations

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry. Public responses to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the issue were due recently and Australian Bankers' Association chief executive, Steve Munchenberg, said the industry ...

ASIC takes SMSF business to court

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... to the growth in SMSFs, the increase by SMSFs in geared investment strategies and following the Parliamentary Joint Committee inquiry into the collapse of Trio, ASIC established an SMSF Taskforce in 2012. "The Taskforce meets regularly to examine high-risk ...

Frydenberg to decide on advice standards in June

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... Treasurer before next Thursday. "We had a broad conversation covering all of the key issues in the Parliamentary Joint Committee report," Anderson confirmed. "From our point of view, we want to make sure that there are sensible transition arrangements ...