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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... Analysis David Orsmond are due to appear before the House of Representatives' Economics Committee public hearing for the inquiry into foreign investment in residential real estate. In equities news, Asaleo Care is due to float on the ASX at noon (AEST). ...

Senate report, a turning point for advice industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... consumers." The FPA chief executive Mark Rantall was satisfied at the fact that the association's recommendations to the inquiry were included in the final report. "We are therefore pleased to see all of this hard work - and our subsequent public position ...

Senate inquiry reccommends Royal Commission into CBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
The Senate Economics Committee has recommended that the government establish an independent inquiry in the form of a judicial inquiry or a Royal Commission to examine the cases of adviser misconduct within the Commonwealth Bank financial planning businesses. ...

Investors should take responsibility for themselves: Medcraft

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said, ahead of the Senate report on the inquiry into the regulator. The Senate Economics Committee is expected to report its conclusions on the extensive inquiry into ASIC's ...

Ripoll labels Cormann's FoFA changes "a stunt"

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... Committee report on the government's proposed changes to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) law. Ripoll, who conducted the inquiry into the financial advice law that later resulted into FoFA, criticised the alleged removal of consumer protections ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... the Westfield Retail Trust's Scentre Group merger and the Mantra Group lists on ASX. Meanwhile, the foreign investment inquiry, looking at foreign investors buying Australian homes, is on in Melbourne. In Australia, the market on Thursday rallied after ...

Cormann ready to issue views on Senate FoFA report

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... move is the next step for the amended FoFA legislation after the Senate Committee issued yesterday the conclusions of its inquiry into the reforms to the financial advice law proposed by the government. The government will now consider the Committee's ...

Xenophon rejects Senate FoFA report

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... government's agenda. Read all Financial Standard coverage of the FoFA legislation here Read the Senate Economics Committee FoFA inquiry report here

FoFA changes designed to protect big players: opposition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... tabled dissenting reports to the Parliament yesterday, as the Senate Economics Committee presented the conclusions to its inquiry into the Coalition's proposed FoFA amendments. Labor recommended that the bill not proceed and said that the government ...

Senate report supportive of government FoFA reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... Financial Advice (FoFA) law, although it suggested some changes. The Committee made public the conclusions of the Senate inquiry into the FoFA amendments and focused on the main industry stakeholders' demand: "to achieve a proper balance between providing ...