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Senate pushes for Sinodinos to explain corruption allegations

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... reporting that he was "weighing up" whether to stand aside from the Abbott ministry. Yesterday, counsel assisting the ICAC inquiry Geoffrey Watson told the Commission that as a board member of AWH Sinodinos was paid $200,000 a year plus bonuses for what ...

Super is now an economic driver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
Industry Super Australia (ISA) will argue to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) that superannuation is now a mature contributor to the Australian economy and should be integrated into the nation's economy's macro management infrastructure. The ISA claim ...

Calls for Sinodinos to "step aside" amid ICAC allegations

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... Assistant Treasurer Senator Arthur Sinodinos to step aside during the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry into his involvement with the Eddie Obeid-linked Australian Water Holdings (AWH). Sinodinos is set to go before the Commission ...

PC examines Weaven's 'inverted bid' infra model

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... biggest players in Australian infrastructure investment, and therefore the two to be most affected by the outcome of the inquiry - IFM Investors and Macquarie Group - were two of just three bodies to make their submissions 'in confidence'. That was out ...

PC calls for overhaul of public infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... including suggestions of a liquidity guarantee and a new bid process for greenfield projects. In its submission to the inquiry, industry fund Cbus advocated the introduction of "a liquidity guarantee for APRA regulated super funds, similar to the deposit ...

Westpac appoints deputy CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... Group has created the role of deputy chief executive officer to address strategic issues such as the Financial System Inquiry and regulatory change. The current chief financial officer Phil Coffey will start in the new role of deputy chief executive ...

Regulators must enforce rules, not write them: Brogden

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
The Murray inquiry must review the role of the financial regulators to ensure that they remain within their remit of regulation enforcement, Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden has said. Speaking at the launch of the FSC/Deloitte ...

Better ASIC-AFP relationship could lead to more prosecutions

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... was scope for a more efficient delivery of justice during the Senate Economics Reference Committee public hearing on the inquiry about the performance of the regulator. ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft said that at the moment ASIC monitors AFP investigations ...

FoFA changes go too far diluting conflicted rem: ISA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... executive Robbie Campo spoke yesterday in a public hearing of the Senate Economics Reference Committee, which is conducting an inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Campo listed "the more problematic ...

ASIC could implement immediate suspension of advisers

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... this issue during yesterday's public hearing of the Senate Economics Reference Committee which is currently conducting an inquiry into the regulator's performance. Senior executive leader Greg Kirk made clear that under the current legal settings ASIC ...