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ACCI supports closing tax breaks on high balances

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) has said there is "sense" in closing tax relief for people with very high superannuation balances. In a statement the pro-business body said a balanced package of reforms to Australia's superannuation ...

Super guarantee charge bundled by red tape repeals

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
... million in savings from the three sets of bills only $14 million have passed the parliament," Chalmers said. Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Kate Carnell said fixing problems with the SGC was "a highlight in the impressive ...

Colonial First State appoints independent super director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund and chair of the investment committee; a non-executive director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Kaldor Public Art Projects; a member of the advisory council at UNSW Medicine; an advisory finance committee ...

Embrace change to stay relevant

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
No advice business is too big to fail if it doesn't adapt to changes in consumer behaviour, according to author and social researcher Michael McQueen. Speaking at the Association of Financial Advisers National Adviser Conference in Cairns this week ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... AmCham lunch in Sydney while Westpac SA general manager Lester Wynne-Jones is scheduled to speak at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch in Adelaide. In Australia, the market on Monday recovered from early jitters to end a run of three straight ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... Capital's head of Retail and Consumer David Mustow and Salmat CEO Craig Dower are among the speakers at Australian Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch. In Australia, the market on Tuesday posted a sixth straight session of gains. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...

Infrastructure allocations up 14% in two years

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... throughout the country. Following the Government's release of the Developing Northern Australia whitepaper, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) noted that the paper's proposed infrastructure projects (including a $600 million roads ...

Fund manager fees too high: David Neal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... That's according to Future Fund managing director David Neal, who made the remarks in a speech to the Australian British Chamber of Commerce at a lunch in Melbourne. "The margins extracted by the investment management industry are, in general, too high ...

US data says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... iteration of "data dependent" you, I and Irene heard from Fed Chair Janet Yellen when she spoke before the Providence Chamber of Commerce in Rhode Island on the 22nd of May about well... the "actual course of policy". There were US data a-plenty released ...