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OPINION: Post RC, where to now for retail super?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... business models of not-for-profit super funds, it didn't all go their way. Indeed the RC's recommendations for Australian workers to have a single default fund will be viewed by weaker industry funds as a savage blow. So too will the proposed ...

Government establishes aged care Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
A prominent law firm believes elder financial abuse should form one of the main issues to be examined at the newly established Royal Commission in to the aged care sector. Maurice Blackburn Lawyers welcomed the Federal Government's intention to establish ...

Australia behind when it comes to pay transparency: AXA IM

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... added investors needed help from professional managers in avoiding inadvertently rewarding this lack of transparency. "Australian investors are increasingly sensitive to corporate behaviour when thinking about where to invest their retirement savings," ...

Industry stakeholders welcome PC report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... worthy ideas that should be considered to improve the competitiveness and efficiency of the superannuation system." Finally, law firm Maurice Blackburn also issued a statement in regards to the PC's scathing review of the Insurance Code of Practice. ...

Royal Commission must cast net wider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... is still an area where the industry as a whole - big firms and small firms - have some work to do. It is a relatively new law and there is a journey here to go through." It's leaving some in the advice industry concerned that the scope of the Royal Commission's ...

AIST creates lead advocacy role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees appointed an ex-ASIC adviser to a newly created advocacy role. Bringing more than a decade of financial services experience, Ailsa Goodwin has taken on the new role of head of advocacy at the industry ...

Shareholders need greater voice on ESG: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors believes the current framework for shareholder resolutions is flawed and needs reform. ACSI's latest report said Australia's corporate governance framework restricts an important right of shareholders ...

ASIC targets retirement products and services

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... using life insurance policies, remuneration, lapse rates and clawbacks. ASIC's industry funding model, which was passed into law on 15 June, will begin issuing its first invoices in January 2019. "Significantly, the introduction of an industry funding ...

Insurers held to account with new FSC code

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... independent oversight of the code and members' adherence to it. The three LCCC members are former Australian Law Reform Commission president David Weisbrot, former Actuaries Institute president David Goodsall and Financial Rights Legal Centre principal ...

Education key in combatting elder financial abuse

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... insight and knowledge for assisting to be money gatekeepers." McGowan believes the findings of the Australian Law Reform Commission's Inquiry into Elder Abuse will indicate the need for more education, with the new resources working toward fulfilling ...