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ASIC chair discloses travel expenses

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... as IOSCO's policy work, developing post-GFC initiatives for developing market infrastructure regulatory frameworks and a task force on global securitisation markets. The statement also noted proposed trips to IOSCO meetings in Seoul, Tokyo, Frankfurt ...

FEATURE: Understanding mFund

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... would have to fill out an application form which could contain anything up to 20 pages of notes. It was quite an arduous task which turned most people off." For the full story, download the 27 January issue of the Financial Standard iPad app here.

FICAP gives support to The Shepherd Centre charity

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... record number of nominations from charities this year. Chris Larsen, FICAP's chairman for 2015 said, "It's never an easy task to choose between so many worthy causes but we were incredibly impressed with the work The Shepherd Centre is doing with deaf ...

MySuper put spotlight on member outcomes: CIFR

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... consider explicitly the needs of these members, and design a product accordingly. "Most participants are approaching this task from the perspective that the typical default member is disengaged and probably poorly informed; and that it is their job to ...

Robots will take over white collar jobs first

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
Contrary to the popular belief, robots are more likely to take over the tasks of medium and high-skilled workers, rather than jobs that do not require a university education, a Department of Industry paper determined. "The challenges presented by increasing ...

Advisers confronted with harsh reality of whistleblowing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... Congress. "There's a moment when you suddenly realise it's you doing it," Morris said, describing the moment when he realised the task he had in front of him. Morris blew the whistle on several cases of adviser malpractice within Commonwealth Bank, initially ...

A trillion euros is in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
What had been a mathematically-derived, guessed at and/or expected a,-1 trillion expansion in the European Central Bank's (ECB) balance sheet has just become fact - ECB President Mario Draghi promised - and it's unanimous. Most would have probably read ...

Cbus employees accused of perjury

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
Two Cbus employees have been accused of perjury and the fund's culture has been strongly criticised in a submission by the council assisting the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption. In his submission, council assisting Jeremy ...

Former JBWere acting CEO joins Impact Investing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
Former acting chief executive of JBWere Daniel Madhavan has been appointed as the inaugural chief executive of Impact Investing Australia. Madhavan will head up the newly-formed not-for-profit organisation that aims to grow impact investment opportunities ...

Advice associations under conflict of interest on professionalism: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Advice industry self-regulation is not an appropriate model to increase professionalism in the financial advice industry, as associations have "an inevitable conflict of interest," the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has argued. "Industry ...