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NAS renews custody contract with CareSuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... custodians over the last months, NAS has also retained asset owners such as Cooper Investors, AMIST Super and Australian Ethical.

FEATURE: Adviser education

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... of financial advisers. In its latest submission to the federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on lifting professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry, Finsia called for the introduction of a national industry examination. ...

CFA Societies wants industry professionals to swear oath

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... who serve it. They acknowledged that it is impossible to regulate against bad ethics but more should be done to raise ethical standards against a backdrop of increased regulatory and public scrutiny in the wake of recent scandals. "High standards of ...

NAS adds Vision Super to lending program

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... fourth appointment this year for NAS, already announcing it retained custody for Cooper Investors, AMIST and Australian Ethical. This is all on top of the confirmation last year that NAS was looking to partner with global custodians. Industry super fund ...

ISA and AIST want changes to professionalism model

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... Superannuation Trustees (AIST) have recommended modifications to a proposed model on lifting educational, professional and ethical standards in the financial services industry. In their joint submission to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the issue ...

Banking and super groups back parliamentary recommendations

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... Representative groups from the banking and superannuation sectors have generally backed recommendations on lifting professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry. Public responses to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on ...

Adviser reputation hits all-time low

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... to the latest Roy Morgan Image of Professions Survey 2015. When asked to rate financial advisers for their honesty and ethical standards, respondents gave advisers a 24% rating, down 4% from last year and they were number 17 in the list of Australia's ...

Industry meets behind closed doors to fix advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... Josh Frydenberg and over 20 industry and consumer bodies met on April 29th to reach a consensus on lifting professional, ethical and education standards for financial advisers. The roundtable is the first of three and will focus on the Parliamentary ...

NGS Super tool can help members move to SMSF

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... industry super fund would assist people in moving to an SMSF. "We believe that we have the responsibility to act in an ethical manner, educate our members and give them the advice that best suits their retirement goals, not ours."

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... corruption and accounting practices. Investors' interest in (and motivations for considering) ESG criteria went beyond ethical concerns: 90% of participants felt ESG criteria had a positive or neutral effect on returns, while over half (57%) believed ...