 Alex Dunnin Executive Director, Research & Compliance, Financial Standard (at time of writing)
ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016 The superannuation industry may bemoan perpetual inquiries but that didn't prevent a frenzied reaction to the Productivity Commission's latest issues paper into how the PC may recommend to government a new way of selecting or allocating employees to ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016 There was thinking that defining the objective of superannuation in legislation would fix things. Not so apparently. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016 As a young high school teacher in country NSW, parent teacher nights were events to dread: "You don't have children do you, Mr Dunnin?" "No," I would answer. "It shows," they would say back to me with a cold glare. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | SUNDAY, 17 JUL 2016 Musician and guitarist Paul Kantner from the iconic San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane once famously said "if you can remember anything about the sixties you weren't really there". Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016 Duncan Storrar did Australia an almighty favour last month. He showed, in the media circus that erupted around him, how dysfunctional is Australia's tax system and how urgent it is we do something to rebalance and fix it before we sink into the fiscal ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016 One of the most important yet difficult challenges facing a post-modern superannuation fund is how to deliver more financial advice to more people. The size of this challenge is matched only by the equally big fallacy that the way to ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016 By now it should be sinking in just how profoundly Treasurer Scott Morrison changed superannuation on budget night. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016 A quick look at the ABS taxation report illustrates why the taxation blowtorch is being turned on superannuation. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016 Thanks to the political brinkmanship being played over whether or not the government should call a Royal Commission into Australia's banks, we've had more financial services regulatory reform in the past two weeks than we've had in the past four yea ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016 In one of the most spectacular recoveries ever witnessed in Australian financial services history, the regulator ASIC has in an instant transformed from a slow-to-react bureaucracy to one of the most ferocious and fearsome cops on the beat the nation ... Read more |
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