Kelly O’Dwyer

People & Products

EQT appoints Kelly O’Dwyer as non-exec director

The former minister who oversaw the creation of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has been appointed as a non-executive director to the board of EQT Ho...

Financial planning

How the industry united to rid itself of FASEA

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...

Financial planning

VOFF calls on ASIC for apology

The Victims of Financial Fraud has said it was “angry” with ASIC chair, James Shipton’s, handling of the Trio Capital scandal as while he had submerged “his own head in t...

Features

Retirement incomes policy – plenty of talk, little action

Mike Taylor writes that in the half-decade of discussion around retirement incomes policy there has been plenty of talk, multiple proposals but very little real progress....

Financial planning

Still no movement on FASEA timetable

The Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Services Technology, Senator Jane Hume has again stopped short of giving any undertaking on ex...

Editorial

Folly in the Govt’s rush on insurance inside super legislation

There is already a good deal of confusion about the Government’s recent legislative efforts around insurance inside superannuation meaning that it should accede to indust...

Editorial

Advisers deserve exam timetable extension

Even the frequent critics of financial advisers should acknowledge that their calls for an extension to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority exam timetabl...

Policy & Regulation

New minister Hume faces continuing Trio/Astarra claims

The newly-installed Assistant Minister for Financial Services, Senator Jane Hume, is being asked to review why the Government did not compensate some Trio/Astarra collaps...