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AFA tweaking life insurance framework

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... Australia (FPA) and Financial Services Council (FSC). The three industry associations reached consensus with Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on the way forward for life insurance advice reforms in June, but AFA chief executive Brad Fox has said that ...

Consensus emerging on Tax White Paper

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has reminded a business forum that the Tax White Paper is about how the government collects tax, not how much. Hockey told the PwC Tax Reform Forum in Melbourne yesterday that more than 800 submissions on the Tax White Paper ...

Government could force QIC to fund Queensland infra

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... force QIC to reduce its international and cash exposure to allocate more funds to the State's infrastructure. Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt said in his first budget speech that over the next six months the State government will consult with Treasury ...

Labor demands to see Treasury papers on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... concessions until Labor announced its superannuation plans. The Treasury documents are reported to show that federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey, received Treasury advice on superannuation tax reforms on four occasions, with the last being on 22 April 2015 ...

A sobering lesson from a social move gone wrong

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... get defensive." His remarks were prompted by Retirement Wealth Advisers principal James Howarth, who called Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg a "central planning Jew" and a "tinkering Jew" on Twitter. The adviser, who has over 5,800 followers, was ...

VFMC appoints new chairman

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... Scheme, WorkSafe Victoria, TAC and the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority. The announcement was made by Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas.

D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... slowing and the fear du jour - Grexit - it was downhill from there. Not even the positive reception to Australian Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's second Budget nor the RBA's May interest rate reduction could get it back up again. Certainly gives meaning ...

Trowbridge salutes risk reforms package

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... Services Council - failed to reach consensus on how to implement the recommendations in Trowbridge's report, Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg suggested Government would need to intervene in the process. However, on June 25 a final agreement was reached. ...

Industry super warns against uniform laws

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... super system." He noted many industry funds were already appointing independent directors where required. Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, who has called for submissions on a draft bill by July 23, told AAP having more independent directors would ...

Risk reforms ignore key adviser concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... industry super fund members," said ISA director of public affairs Matthew Linden. "While it is laudable that the Assistant Treasurer has sought to make the industry responsible for tackling these serious structural conflicts, a transition towards phasing ...