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OPINION: What to do with the Tax White Paper!

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... Ministers in charge of tax reform, Scott Morrison and Kelly O'Dwyer have been sufficiently briefed by the Treasury, the Green (options) Paper should be released before Christmas. Releasing the Green Paper before Christmas means there will be time for ...

Nikko AM grows distribution team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... financial services companies Legg Mason Global Asset Management, ABN AMRO Bank, BT Financial and Norwich Union Australia. Simon Green was most recently a business development analyst at Pengana Capital. He also worked for several years in London within ...

Monopolies offer best infrastructure returns: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... and lots of data to determine long-term power usage, traffic flows and the like. To that end, the fund does not invest in green or brown-field projects. The strategy aims to achieve around CPI plus 5% over the long term. Robertson said that's not a bad ...

Reversal of fortunes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
We're happy, Jan! This is the universal chorus from financial markets everywhere the week - the first 7 trading days of October - after the quarter - the worst three-months since September 2011 - before. Oh yes, yes, yo Virginia, we're happy little ...

Prime Super launches new brand

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... Plan in 2014. The $3 billion industry super fund's new tagline is "surprisingly straightforward" and the old logo featuring green rolling hills and a yellow sun in the shape of the Australian continent has been replaced by a single letter 'P' made up ...

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Funds worth $3.3 trillion have divested from fossil fuel only in the last year. Fossil free activists are not "crazy loonies," but a well-coordinated global movement that is now targeting Australia's superannuation funds. Go Fossil Free, a divestment ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... Australian Financial Review (AFR) this morning quoted director of research and senior managing partner at Penn Capital, Eric Green, saying that, "There's some concern that the Fed sees something we're not seeing in the data." Yes Eric, Janet sees dead ...

First State Super socially responsible options go green

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
First State Super has divested from fossil fuels in its socially responsible investment options and is researching the resilience of its broader portfolio to climate change. Members who choose the socially responsible investment option will not be exposed ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Are we barking at the wrong tree? Let me rephrase that, we are barking at the wrong tree. It has been less than a month ago - before this wailing and gnashing of teeth - that bad China news brought hopes that central command would fight back with stimulus ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
Australians all let us rejoice... for that recession we've long been longing to have might be just around the next bend. By now, Virginia, you would have read all about "Bloody Monday" - when "ASX loses $60 billion in worst day since the GFC" (9news.com.au) ...