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CBA wants Senate to fix corporate super advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... asked the Senate inquiry into the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) to find a way to solve the issue. The bank made this request in a submission to the Senate Economics Committee inquiry into FoFA. The document, which was made public recently, said that ...

ISA and FSC prepare for Federal Court clash

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... informed the FSC's lawyer that it was likely to seek leave to intervene in the court hearing. The FSC responded with a request to list ISA as a respondent. However, ISA did not expect to be listed as the first respondent. This development suggests that ...

LUCRF divests $5 million of cluster munition and tobacco

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
LUCRF Super has approved the negative screening and divestment of cluster munition manufacturers and tobacco companies from its investment portfolios. The fund said that it held $4.5 million in cluster munition stocks and $522,000 in tobacco as of January ...

Custodians fight hard for big super deals

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... increasingly drawn-out, gruelling, intensely competitive processes. They begin with a briefing, and are followed by a request for proposals (RFP), which can contain as many as 500 questions. In the next phase, the super fund will conduct face-to-face ...

FSC will take FWC to Federal Court

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... Financial Services Council (FSC) will take legal action against the Fair Work Commission (FWC) after it rejected the FSC's request for a hearing on the validity of the expert panel. FSC chief executive John Brogden said he would apply for "an urgent ...

Legal action on cards as FWC denies FSC requests

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... rejected the Financial Services Council's (FSC) call for a hearing on the validity of the expert panel as well as its request for a one week extension on MySuper applications. In response to this decision, the FSC restated that it is "considering its ...

FSC and ISA clash over super and awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
The Financial Services Council's (FSC) request to review the constitution of the Fair Work Commission (FWC) expert panel on super and awards has met with opposition from Industry Super Australia (ISA). The FSC questioned the validity of the FWC expert ...

ASIC admits wrongdoing in Senate hearing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... when it became apparent that Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFP)'s management was not responding to the regulator's request to tackle the problems. "We should have acted earlier," senior executive leader Greg Kirk said. The hearing reached its most ...

CBA promoted Nguyen to keep him away from clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The Senate inquiry into the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has heard that the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) promoted financial planner Don Nguyen, despite allegations of fraud. Speaking at the inquiry Commonwealth ...

APRA requests more decision-making power

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... procedure - whereby regulatory changes brought in by APRA can be disallowed by parliament within 15 sitting days. APRA's request for more power runs against sentiments expressed by Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden earlier this ...