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New laws bring aged care advice into the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... arrangements to reflect the true cost of providing aged care and strengthen the sustainability of the system," Challenger technical services manager Sean Howard says in a technical whitepaper that outlines the main regulatory changes and the implications ...

Former NAB execs follow Hartley to Sunsuper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... opportunities for Sunsuper to attract new corporate and institutional clients." The second division, named 'Products, Projects & Technical Services', will be headed by Jason Sommer, who was formerly general manager, change and technical services at NAB ...

Australia and New Zealand accountants launch joint brand

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... focused on greater influence of national economic policy and regulatory agendas and on international professional and technical standards," he said.

PROFILE: Invesco CEO Martin Franc

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... the UK, Franc was handpicked by industry legend Bill Mahoney to help BT's big clients better understand how the more technical detail around how the company was managing derivatives, what systems it used as well as issues such as separation of duty around ...

Banks support the "original" FoFA intent: ABA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... and to reintroduce commissions in general advice. The bankers' organisation argued that the sector is only seeking "technical amendments which will clarify and simplify the operation of the law." "The ABA is not seeking changes to enable banks to charge ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... Ukraine was so far limited but investors will continue to pay attention to them next week," said Hikaru Sato, senior technical analyst at Daiwa Securities. wellington WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares have gained, led by Metlifecare after the retirement ...

CBA, CSSA promote FoFA legal loophole

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... duty, and conflicted remuneration would be allowed. The practices would therefore be identical, but due to a change in technical definition, they would be legal. When Financial Standard spoke to Latto in February, he said he was "much more than 50% confident" ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

SMSF flexibility makes them error prone

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... is one of the reasons these funds are vulnerable to compliance problems. Speaking at this week's Financial Services Technical Services forum, AMP SMSF Administration head of technical servicesA A Philip LaGreca said that the main culprit was the complexity ...

SPAA applauds tax changes to excess contributions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... non-concessional contributions is likely to result in complex compliance requirements." MLC also welcomed the changes, head of technical and development Keiran McIlwain saying: "This is good news for many people, particularly Australia's 5.5 million ...