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Sinodinos says six figure AWH salary was 'reasonable'

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... corruption allegations within the company. Sinodinos stood aside from his role as Assistant Treasurer shortly after the inquiry started. ICAC questioned the senator regarding his role as a chairman of AWH and the involvement of the company with the Obeid ...

RBA questions super fund infra investment

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... to mandate funds to invest in assets to meet "broader national objectives." In its submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI), the central bank said that rather than superannuation funds being forced to invest in infrastructure assets, trustees ...

Lawyer exposes ASIC favours to big players

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... gave favourable treatment to the big end of the market. Wheeldon appeared yesterday at a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the performance of the regulator. He exposed how the Investment and Financial Services Association - now rebranded to the ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

ASFA and AIST push for tighter regulation of SMSFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Two of the major superannuation industry bodies have used their submissions to the Financial System Inquiry to call for tighter regulation of the self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) sector. Both the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australian ...

ICAA questions AFSL system, calls for individual licensing

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... result in a decline of competition and unsound financial advice for consumers. In its submission to the Financial Services Inquiry (FSI) on the terms of reference of theA Murray review, the accountancy body said that it would be valuable to review whether ...

CBA asks Murray inquiry to remove super from awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is asking the Financial Systems Inquiry to remove super from awards and to amend legislation so employers can select any MySuper product as the default fund for their employees. In a submission to the Murray inquiry, CBA said ...

ASX calls for Australia-based exchanges

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has called for the Financial Services Inquiry to explore introducing requirements for systemically important financial markets infrastructure assets to be placed on-shore. This would grant Australia's policy ...

PROFILE: Westpac GM of bank financial planning

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... where his father was head of Australian Customs, Chesworth returned to his home town of Canberra and got a job on the inquiry desk of what was then the Bank of New South Wales. A lot has changed since then. "We had no telephone banking in those days ...

Murray inquiry initial submissions due today

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Industry stakeholders have lodged their initial submissions to the terms of reference of the Financial Systems Inquiry, which closed today. The submissions will be published by the inquiry website in the coming days, but some organisations chose to ...