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Up to 2.4m super members affected by CommInsure scandal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... have rocked insurance company CommInsure, according to Rainmaker Information estimates. A joint investigation by Fairfax the ABC's 4 Corners alleged the company pressured doctors into changing their assessments of customers to avoid payouts, delayed ...

Financial Standard appoints deputy editor

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
Financial Standard appoints Whitney Fitzsimmons, former host of ABC's Business Today and Lateline Business, as deputy editor. Fitzsimmons is one of the nation's most recognisable TV personalities, having spent over a decade at the ABC where for eight ...

Super tax back on Turnbull's agenda

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... those earning up to $37,000 would pay no super contributions tax. Asked to comment on this information during an interview on ABC Radio, Treasurer Scott Morrison said: "All these measures are on the table." Morrison continued: "It's a very interesting ...

Bowen draws red line on default fund choice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... default fund, as many people do simply accept the default fund," Labor Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen said during an interview on ABC 7.30. He defended the current system in which the Fair Work Commission determines the default superannuation funds for ...

More calls for Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... Australian Senator John Williams has reiterated calls for a Royal Commission in to the financial planning industry. Williams told ABC he was not satisfied by IOOF's response last week when the company's managing director Christopher Kelaher was asked ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... bad, it's bad that we get to see the "R" word back in print. "Capex: Business investment plans at 'recessionary' levels" (abc.net) "Capital investment: Economic outlook slips 'from bleak to recessionary'" (theage.com) The "bleak" set of numbers: Actual ...

Superannuation tax concessions unsustainable: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... popular but it was a better alternative to the coalition's decision to leave super alone. In a recent radio interview with ABC, Bowen labeled current superannuation tax concessions "unsustainable" and that Labor's response to the 2015 budget was "being ...

Hockey defends budget backflip

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... budget and this year we have started to implement it. We have faced increasingly hard headwinds," he admitted. Grilled by ABC journalist Leigh Sales about "having one policy and replacing it with another," Hockey argued that the previous Labor government ...

Opposition welcomes SME package, slams Google tax

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... has branded the so-called crack-down on multi-nationals "a cop out". "We welcome the small business package," he told the ABC's Leigh Sales. "We support the lower corporate tax rate. Separate to those small business measures there are some revenue measures ...

Falling cash rate puts gold in 'sweet spot'

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... fallen below 2%. "Low interest rate environments like the one Australia is experiencing are typically the sweet spot for gold," ABC Bullion chief economist Jordan Eliseo said. The World Gold Council revealed that in 2014 central bank gold purchases hit ...