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Lawyer exposes ASIC favours to big players

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... process as "a shame from the beginning to the end" and said it was "tainted by corruption." ASIC ended up approving IFSA's request in 2005 and saying that it didn't undertake public consultation prior to the relief because it was "in minor and machinery ...

ICAA questions AFSL system, calls for individual licensing

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
The Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA) has said that the current practice of individual financial advisers operating under the Australian Financial Services Licences (AFSLs) of institutions could result in a decline of competition and ...

SPAA and Macquarie to investigate SMSFs

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... confidential. Industry participants can access the survey here http://survey.confirmit.com/wix/p3056432683.aspx?s=2 and can request to receive a copy of the report at the completion of the survey.

ATO issues warning ahead of tax haven crackdown

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is urging all taxpayers with offshore assets to declare their interests, ahead of a global crackdown on international tax havens. The ATO's offshore voluntary disclosure initiative, 'Project DO IT: disclose offshore ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
Sanctions? You call that sanctions? Putin must be LOL-in' after hearing the news that Europe has imposed "sanctions" by freezing the assets of 21 Russian and Crimean officials and imposing travel bans on them. The US imposed the same "sanctions" on ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... programme worked or not. Maybe not well enough on the economy, but too well on the stock market. This is where I ask, request, beg our IT people to pretty please make this system be able to show charts.A Please... A picture would have better explained ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... case". Just forget what he said only the day before that Russia's military presence in Crimea was because of "... a direct request from a legitimate president, Yanukovych, on military aid to protect Ukrainian citizens."A He was only joking, my friends. ...

SMSF industry welcomes more flexible penalties

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... more disciplined approach to pensions, particularly in relation to when a pension starts and when a partial commutation request is received, is needed," Burgess said. "In the past, in some instances, the industry may have been a bit blasA(C) about pension ...

Industry resists full portfolio disclosure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... who had ethical concerns about a super fund's holdings, such as tobacco or gambling companies, should have the right to request that information rather than forcing funds to publish it as a matter of course. On the subject of commercially sensitive information ...

Pressure mounts on super in modern awards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... employees, employers and applicants if the review process is changed shortly after it has commenced." BT said: "We... request that the Commission adopt a prudent approach to its current review process by delaying its formal commencement until the government ...