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Labor opposes super trustee governance bill

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
Labor senators Sam Dastyari and Chris Ketter have dissented from a report recommending the bill on superannuation trustee governance be passed in the Senate today. The dissenting senators believe the bill "blindly conflates and confuses trustee governance ...

CBA whistleblower flags unfair compensation

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... integrity" and "is very opaque to outsiders." "The bank is trying lower the cost of its compensation," he added. Senator Sam Dastyari commented that "the Australian Senate was given assurances that this program was about putting the victims first and ...

More calls for Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... agreed to front the inquiry but were not present last week, as they were overseas. At the public hearing Senator Sam Dastyari mooted the prospect of calling in PwC as part of the inquiry, given that they have led several reviews at IOOF which have found ...

Claims of wrongdoing have no basis: IOOF

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... claims of widespread wrongdoing have no basis of fact," Kelaher said. For the most part of the morning, Labor Senator Sam Dastyari quizzed Kelaher about when he knew of front-running, absence of an asset register and plagiarism allegations, dating back ...

IOOF execs asked to face Senate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... able to appear in front of the Committee, given the short notice of the invite; a spokesperson for Labor Senator Sam Dastyari told Financial Standard. If IOOF refuses to appear, "the Economics Committee can elevate the invite to a formal request from ...

Lawyer slams NAB compensation scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... Financial Advice inquiry. However, following the bank's appointment of Kingsford Smith, Committee chair and Labor Senator Sam Dastyari told Financial Standard : "I am pleased to hear that NAB has taken this step after the repeated urgings of my colleagues ...

NAB upgrades advice compensation program

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... public hearing in Canberra as part of the Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry. Committee chair and Labor Senator Sam Dastyari told NAB chief executive: "Mr Thorburn, you throw around the word 'independent'. There is nothing independent about the process ...

Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... bad advice. A rise in professional indemnity premiums is only compounding the problem. Senators Nick Xenophon and Sam Dastyari proposed a statutory financial advice victim insurance scheme at the Senate Economics References Committee's Scrutiny of Financial ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... went wrong in their advice divisions at a public Senate hearing in Canberra on Tuesday. Chaired by Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, the Senate Economics Committee will interrogate Macquarie Group chief executive Nicolas Moore and head of banking and financial ...

NAB to face Senate grilling over advice scandal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... because we want to get to the bottom of this issue with NAB as soon as possible," Labor Senator and Committee chair Sam Dastyari told the media minutes before the hearing. Reports in Fairfax Media of persistent bad behaviour within NAB's financial planning ...
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