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AustralianSuper, IFM Investors buy Ausgrid in five weeks

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... for IFM Investors confirmed the consortium began preparing its unsolicited proposal the moment Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison knocked back a foreign investment bid on August 19. Both IFM Investors and AustralianSuper have paid $16.2 billion for a 50.4% ...

Aussie government bond flaunts confidence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... Australian government's 30-year bond demonstrates both foreign and domestic confidence in the country. Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison said the bond raised $7.6 billion from investors and the historic issue attracted bids totalling almost double that ...

AustralianSuper and IFM seek energy asset

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... services and job losses. ETU secretary Steve Butler said the unsolicited offer came a month after Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison blocked a similar sale of the company, citing national security concerns. "The Federal Government has been advised that ...

ASIC investigating ASX outage

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has confirmed that ASIC is investigating September 19's significant disruption to ASX trading. The ASX has blamed the outage, which was the longest in five years, on a "hardware failure" though no other details were ...

Parliament goes to war on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... people aged 65 to 74, and allowing tax deductions for personal superannuation contributions. Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison rejected Labor's policy and said "their changes are more suited to the economy of the 1970's than a 21st Century economy where ...

Government finds $2.9 billion from super tax

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
The realm of superannuation taxation has shifted with Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison announcing new measures that will deliver a net revenue boost of $2.9 billion over the next four years. After superannuation representative groups welcomed no new ...

Police super a budget beneficiary

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... result of changes to payment structures in a death and disability scheme introduced in 2012. Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison did not say how much the four-year transitional arrangement will cost when announcing it yesterday, with numbers to be revealed ...

FSC sends final budget message

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... with super's objective. This is the final message from the Financial Services Council (FSC) to Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison ahead of his first budget next Tuesday. Of all the tabled proposals the FSC's biggest budget wish is for the government to ...

Australia aims to be APAC fintech leader

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison's recent trip to Hong Kong and Shanghai top-dressed the government's innovation commitment and complemented calls by financial services executives for Australia's fintech industry to immediately capitalise in a "booming" ...

Pensioners want DB decision reversed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... their first 2016 Age Pension payment. On behalf of DB pensioners CPSA is proposing to write to federal Treasurer Scott Morrison, federal Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, and Greens leader Richard Di Natale, to point out several problems with a new restriction ...