Lisa-Marie McKechnie is a Partner in EY’s Financial Services team in Sydney who specialises in superannuation and life insurance, prudential regulation and privacy and data protection.

Lisa-Marie advises trustees on all aspects of their fund operations including:

• life policies and indemnity insurance
• investment and asset management
• privacy and data protection
• outsourcing
• administration and custodial agreements
• dealing with and advising on interventions and requisitions by regulators
• the restructure of superannuation arrangements including successor fund transfers, mergers and outsourcing arrangements
• AFS licence and RSE licence obligations, and
• advice, management and process for death benefit distribution.

Lisa-Marie is passionate about industry education and regularly presents for the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) as well as the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). She is a Director on the Board of the Financial Services Accountant’s Association (FSAA), and the NSW Chair of the Australasian Life Underwriting and Claims Association (ALUCA).

Kathy Neilson is a Senior Manager in EY’s Financial Services team in Sydney who specialises in superannuation and life insurance, prudential regulation, regulatory change, corporate governance. and risk and compliance.

Kathy advises financial service clients on all types of issues including:

• regulator applications and submissions
• regulator engagement, investigation procedure and regulator priorities
• corporate governance and compliance
• superannuation, insurance and trust law and all aspects of the Corporations Act with a particular focus on Chapter 7, and
• risk and compliance requirements and the impact of legal and regulatory breaches.

Kathy was the Project Leader for the review and redrafting of the RG 97 fees and costs disclosure regime at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). She was directly involved in redrafting the regulatory guide and the legislative requirements, as well as consulting with industry to understand their concerns in relation to fees and costs disclosure.