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ANZ taps clean investing with green bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... investor demand and to deliver on our commitment to deploy capital for the transition to a lower-carbon economy," ANZ Group treasurer Rick Moscati said. This is the second issuance of a green bond in Australia after National Australia Bank (NAB) announced ...

Shadow Treasurer will go to election over super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
Federal Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen is prepared to table changes to superannuation tax concessions in parliament prior to an election. Bowen made the call in his recent budget reply speech at the National Press Club where he reiterated the current ...

Treasury to simplify foreign investment framework

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... parties" as to how to "modernise" and strengthen the integrity of Australia's foreign investment framework. This follows Treasurer Joe Hockey's comments in his 2015 Budget speech where he proposed "introducing a new fee regime, better enforcement and ...

Superannuation tax concessions unsustainable: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Federal Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen said Labor's superannuation policy might not be universally 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 ...

Economist asleep over budget investment market impact

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... did in 1994 causing a bond crash. Interest rates are going to stay very low," Oliver said. He disagreed with federal treasurer Joe Hockey's lowered iron ore price assumption of $48 as "in the last few weeks it has bounced back to $64 but you could argue ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The portrait of Australian Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's beaming self-congratulatory smile as he did the rounds of media interviews yesterday remains deeply stuck in my brain. Can't blame smokin' Joe, he might just get his autograph on a third Budget ...

Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... "It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future". You, I and Irene already know what happened to ex-Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's guessed and "promised" A$1.5 billion underlying cash balance (0.1% of GDP) surplus for 2012/13. It amazingly ...

Budget projections risk being too optimistic, economists warn

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... revenue growth included in Budget 2015 risks being too optimistic. AMP chief economist Shane Oliver acknowledged that Treasurer Joe Hockey replaced the focus from last year's "budget emergency" to "boosting jobs, growth and opportunity." Oliver noted ...

Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... services, to just half the level of our commodity exports, it would add $50 billion to our economy each and every year," Treasurer Joe Hockey said during his 2015 Budget speech. The Treasurer predicted that services, including finance, "will be the big ...

IFAs to benefit from budget

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... immediate deductions on every asset costing less than $20,000 (previously $1,000) purchased between now and 30 June 2017. Treasurer Joe Hockey said that the cuts were "the lowest small business company tax rate in almost 50 years" and designed to help ...