JANE HUME

Superannuation

The Government is continuing to hedge its bets on delivering the scheduled increase in the superannuation guarantee to 10%. ...

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Financial planning

Financial advice firms already digesting the scale of their Australian Securities and Investments Commission levy invoices are worried about what a compensation scheme of...

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Features

There was support for increased standards in the financial advice industry, Chris Dastoor writes, but any goodwill was destroyed by FASEA in just a few years. Where did i...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has prosecuted many people for operating without an Australian Financial Services License but it appears no one has b...

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Outsider

Outsider has been hoping beyond hope that “Persevering Jane”, the Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy, Senator Jane Hume, was speaking...

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Superannuation

While much attention was focused on other elements of its Your Future Your Super legislation, the Government has moved at the same time to impose key obligations with res...

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Superannuation

Senator Jane Hume says her greatest frustration is the disconnect between what she is being told by superannuation funds and what she is being told by industry bodies....

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Outsider

It is not often that Outsider feels a sense of surprise. But the usually unfazed Outsider was left feeling shocked when he attended what must have been one of the first i...

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Superannuation

Jane Hume has said the legislated superannuation guarantee rise had put the government in an “awkward” position as it was trying to lower costs to businesses. ...

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Financial planning

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority may be gone but its exam timetable will continue and so will the requirement for financial advisers to become degree ...

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Financial planning

Mike Taylor writes that few people genuinely argued with the objectives set out for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority but they did argue with the autho...

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Financial planning

The Government has scrapped the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority with its standards making functions rolled into Treasury while remaining elements are han...

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Superannuation

The Federal Government has signalled it will not be relenting on making superannuation funds perform and be more transparent for members....

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Editorial

The widespread general criticism of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority’s latest efforts around code of conduct guidance should be the catalyst for the G...

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Outsider

Outsider knows what it’s like to be treated like a mushroom. He is not unfamiliar with being kept in the dark and being fed execrable information....

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