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Coalition Senators head-to-head over FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
The government's reforms to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) could be disallowed by Nationals' Senator John Williams after he staged a parliamentary confrontation against Finance Minister and Liberal Senator Mathias Cormann. The Senate Standing ...

Treasury proposes tax relief for merging super funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
The government finally looks set to provide capital gains taxation relief for merging super funds after years of pressure from the superannuation industry. This week Treasury has released a consultation paper recommending concrete amendments to the ...

FEATURE: Quenching the thirst for income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
Low economic growth and wavering investment confidence in the wake of the global financial crisis has turned a stampede of investors onto the portfolio boosting benefits of income-paying investments. But understanding the many options available can ...

Someone mentioned the "S-word" on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
The Australian market looks set to open markedly lower after Wall Street fell more than one-and-a-half per cent. At 0805 AEST on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was down 53 points at 5,318. Locally, in economic news on Friday ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Cool it or we'll hose you down! That's the overriding message to the property market of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) September Financial Stability Review. While the Australian central bank also warned against rising property prices in March ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following solid gains on Wall Street as a strong housing report helped equities regain ground. At 0810 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up 23 points at 5,402. Locally ...

Super funds launch mental-illness claims benchmark

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Industry fund-sponsored organisation SuperFriend has today released detailed quantitative research on mental illness-related claims through group insurance, a project it has called the Super Mental Illness National Data (SuperMIND) Project. The research ...

Govt to amend fund merger tax laws

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Abbott government has announced that it will go ahead with amendments to the tax rules around fund mergers to ensure members caught up in such mergers are not inadvertently hit with tax penalties. The amendments were proposed by the previous Labor ...

Folkestone enters joint venture to build commercial complex

... around $30 million. Wilmac Properties will manage delivery of the project on behalf of the JV. Folkestone head of real estate Ben Dodwell said: "We are excited to be joining with Wilmac Properties to deliver stage two. Wilmac are an experienced developer ...