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Club Plus Super increases women on trustee board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... Brigades Employees' Credit Union. She is a former chief executive of Qantas Super and is also a non-executive director and treasurer of Girl Guides Australia, and serves on advisory panels for the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) ...

Life Insurance Framework fear fading

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... always about putting the detail on that skeleton," he said. "We've been discussing these ideas with the new Assistant Treasurer, and she's been observing, listening and coming to her own conclusions. We want a clearer definition on what constitutes a ...

Labor questions APRA independence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... Committee yesterday that she spoke with crossbench senators after being approached to do so by the office of Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer. Shadow Minister for financial services and superannuation Jim Chalmers believes the government pressured APRA ...

Treasurer open to all ideas on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has not ruled out an idea of lifting the tax cap on superannuation contributions for women returning to work so they can "top up" their super. The tax cap lift would also apply to carers and other people who face lengthy ...

Bowen draws red line on default fund choice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... protect the interests of those who use the 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 ...

OPINION: What to do with the Tax White Paper!

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... seek a mandate at the 2016 election. There is enough time to carry a community debate and a reform package. The new Treasurer, Scott Morrison indicated he was thinking carefully about it on 28 September: "There was a discussion paper released some months ...

FSI retirement response receives support

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs) by super funds, in disagreement with one of the FSI recommendations. Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison said the Productivity Commission will be tasked with developing criteria and to assess the efficiency and competitiveness ...

Government to lift advice standards by law

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... Murray's FSI report. "We support the retail life insurance industry's proposed reforms as announced by the then Assistant Treasurer on 25 June 2015," the government said, referring to the Life Insurance and Advice Working Group, led by John Trowbridge. ...

ASIC to be handed greater powers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... the recommendation for periodic reviews of regulators' capabilities. In a joint statement introducing the response, Treasurer Scott Morrison and Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer said, "The Government's response sets out an agenda for improving our financial ...

Government using super as "petri dish": Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... including tax, right at the moment," Turnbull said. During the matter of public importance debate, Assistant Minister to the Treasurer, Alex Hawke, questioned Chalmers' raising of the issue "when his main point is that the government is bringing Australia ...