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AFA recruits for professionalism

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
A new appointment at the Association of Financial Advisers will help ready its membership for new professional requirements to be set by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority. Linda Vogel joined the association as general counsel, professionalism. ...

InFocus restructures to support growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
A period of substantial growth will see InFocus welcome a raft of new additions to a restructured leadership team. Taking on the role of general manager, financial advice is former head of wealth management for Heritage Bank Richard Herbst. Having also ...

First State Super wins government lease

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... rises at CPI for the full term of the concession. It also created a new external regulator, the Registrar General, to monitor and audit ARI's performance and if need be, resume control of the LPI business. Webb added First State will make every effort ...

NAB retains long-term asset servicing mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
NAB Asset Servicing will extend its 10-year partnership with a major Australian university for a further five years. The University of Sydney retained NAS as the custodian of its endowment funds as well as the recently-introduced Student Managed Fund ...

BlackRock's Fink commends Aussie infrastructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
BlackRock chairman and chief executive Larry Fink has praised Australia's use of private capital in funding infrastructure, and said the US needs to catch up. In his annual letter to shareholders, Fink said the United States trails behind countries ...

Industry model costing good advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
The proposed industry funding model to help ASIC regulate poor advisers is at the cost of those behaving professionally and ethically, according to the Association of Financial Advisers. The ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Bill, which details an ...

ABA committing to industry reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
The Australian Bankers' Association announced it will commit to the majority of the Khoury Report's proposed banking reforms, promising to raise its code of practice to meet higher standards. Of the 99 recommendations, the ABA is fully supporting 61 ...

Super trustees need better vigilance: APRA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
APRA's deputy chair Helen Rowell hit out at superannuation trustees who incur "inappropriate expenditures" saying that unnecessary costs negatively affect outcomes for members. Speaking to delegates at the 2017 Conference of Major Super Funds (CMSF) ...

Crowdfunding legislation gets greenlight

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
The newly passed equity crowdfunding legislation will give businesses unprecedented access to alternate sources of capital - an opportunity many have been waiting for, according to FinTech Australia. The Senate passed the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-Sourced ...

ATO payroll system tracking unpaid super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
The Australian Taxation Office is tackling the growing $3.6 billion unpaid super problem with its Single Touch Payroll (STP) system that closely monitors employers' inability to pay superannuation entitlements, with the first phase due to roll out on ...