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Banks should hold more capital: Murray

AAP  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... it will result in higher interest rates for customers. The inquiry also recommends clamping down on borrowing by superannuation funds and the introduction of a competitive process to allocate new workforce entrants to MySuper products. Provisions that ...

Financial System Inquiry recommendations wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... efficiency, resilience and fair treatment of the financial system. Read below the relevant recommendations for the superannuation, wealth management and funds management industries. Objectives of the superannuation system: Seek broad political agreement ...

MTAA hails 'a third, a third, a third' board structure a success

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... Financial System Inquiry report will be released this Sunday, and it is widely expected to have something to say about superannuation fund governance - namely, that the boards of super funds should have a quota of independent trustees. While many equal ...

Infra committee recommends ISA's inverted bid model

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
Industry Super Australia's inverted bid model for infrastructure project development has moved a step closer to becoming a reality, receiving the endorsement of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications. The ...

ATO cold calling to test SMSF trustees

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... point for super funds to determine if an individual is a member of the fund for the purposes of rolling over their superannuation benefits, this in turn has restricted the member's ability to rollover their benefits into the SMSF," Harkin said in the ...

NAS loses another super fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) has lost another super fund client, with TWUSUPER switching custodians to BNP Paribas Securities Services. The $3.9 billion fund is the latest in a string of super funds, including QSuper, Sunsuper and Cbus, to take their business ...

Follow our coverage of the FSI final report on Sunday

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... release on Sunday. The report, which is likely to shape industry and regulatory policy for the financial planning, superannuation and investment management industries for years to come, is expected to be released by Treasurer Joe Hockey and FSI chair ...

Epoch funds get upgrade from Zenith

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... levels of income. "These are factors that are increasingly important to retail investors, including self-managed superannuation fund investors." The Grant Samuel Epoch Global Equity Shareholder Yield Funds were launched to retail investors in Australian ...

High-calibre superannuation: 2014 CIO and COO Award recipients announced

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
Leading superannuation fund executives were recognised at the 2014 Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Awards held in Melbourne last night. When Sam Sicilia's name was announced as this year's recipient of the annual Chief ...

ATO exec leaves to join consulting firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) assistant deputy commissioner for superannuation has left the regulator to join Brisbane-based consultancy firm McPherson Super Consulting. Stuart Forsyth was involved in drafting the ATO ruling on limited recourse borrowing ...