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Is content king for super funds?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... engage anybody. But putting it into the context of what Joe Hockey has just said about account based pensions or what Tony Abbott's been saying, that suddenly becomes relevant because people say, 'Oh, well here's a super fund with an opinion.'" He believes ...

Shadow Treasurer will go to election over super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... just four years. This is a challenge for budget sustainability that must be met right now." Bowen said Prime Minister Tony Abbott promised not to touch superannuation but already had by freezing the superannuation guarantee at 9.5%. The announcements ...

Super concessions key to tax review

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... super in this term of parliament and we have no plans to make adverse changes to super in the future," Prime Minister Tony Abbott said shortly after the budget was released. Government sources told Fairfax that Abbott is not planning to make changes ...

Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... it would given his first one which left almost all sectors of the Australian economy frothing at the mouth cursing the Abbott government). Call it what you like but at the end of the day, it's built on forecasts - also known as guesses - about the future. ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... Minister Tony Abbot "promised" that this one would be a "pretty dull and pretty routine" budget. Then again, with Tony Abbott, we can never be sure. And then, there's the question of how many of the savings/spending measures would pass the Senate this ...

No changes to neg gearing, super in Budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Just three weeks out from the Abbott government's second budget, the Prime Minister and Assistant Treasurer have said there will be no changes to tax policy regarding negative gearing or superannuation. On speculation that the government might act to ...

Majority slammed (again), equities dunked, A$ fouled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... ease either through the government delivering (well, leaking it out first) a sensible Budget with sensible policies or PM Abbott is spilled, or both. But one thing I definitely have a problem with are the adjectives, the descriptors, of the local equity ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... true..." - Tim Hardin Data releases over the past few weeks have vindicated the "crisis" duo of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his cigar-smoking Treasurer Joe Hockey. Yes, Virginia. They've been telling us since they were still opposing Rudd ...

Investor sentiment shifting overseas

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... investment adviser who is an external member of the Global Macroeconomic Advisory Committee that advises the Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure investment fund. Minack was speaking at a briefing the boutique manager convened this morning. ...

Breathing space or gasping room?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... why he's breaking his election promise of "no more austerity". Is that a leadership spill, I smell (or is it just Tony Abbott?)? But even assuming the institutions ultimately ratify the extension a,-1.5 billion bailout and Tsipras' voters understand ...