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ME Bank makes key appointment from GE Capital

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
ME Bank has appointed a former GE Capital risk expert to the position of chief risk officer. Carlo Cataldo spent 13 years with GE Capital, six as the consumer chief risk officer, and will now be tasked with capitalising on the comprehensive credit reporting ...

SMSF advisers gear for referrals from accountants

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
More than half (55%) of SMSF financial planners expect referrals from external accountants to be a future source of clients, CoreData's 2014 SMSF Professional Report reveals. Overall, three-quarters of all SMSF intermediaries expect 10% growth in their ...

Labor, Greens will "keep fighting" after FoFA backflip

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... (FoFA) amendments in the Senate last night "We are still in discussions to see what happens next," Labor Member of Parliament Bernie Ripoll told Financial Standard. Ripoll, who headed the original inquiry that resulted into the first FoFA law, said ...

Run with bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... comforting words. Just last night, Super Mario told the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg that, "We will maintain a high degree of monetary policy accommodation. In view of the outlook for inflation ...

Labor questions Murray, calls for another inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
The opposition has called for a further parliamentary inquiry into the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and the Commonwealth Bank and branded the government's plans to examine financial advice scandals as part of the Financial System ...

Federal Court judgements contradictory on adviser liability

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... to have known that the conduct engaged in was misleading or deceptive. The Full Court's ruling appears to indicate Parliament's intention to exclude defendants whose conduct was deliberate or reckless from the benefit of the reduction in liability that ...

Government plays down support for royal commission

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
Initial comments from the government suggest it may be unwilling to consider the Senate Committee's recommendation that there be a royal commission into Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the government would "carefully ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... Speaking at this morning's annual policy conference for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) held at Parliament House in Canberra, Dr David Gruen, the Commonwealth Treasury's executive director macroeconomic group, said, "the key ...

Super for retirement income not wealth warn Treasury, ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... Speaking at this morning's annual policy conference for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) held at Parliament House in Canberra, Dr David Gruen, the Commonwealth Treasury's executive director macroeconomic group, said, "the key ...

Advisers applaud "historic" ban on commissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... so far opposed the government's proposed changes to FoFA, will likely wait until the final legislation is tabled in Parliament, but Brogden noted that Cormann's statement already shows "a significant change." Brogden stressed that controversial measures ...