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FSC focuses FATCA talk on govt agreement

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
Financial Services Council chief John Brogden is back in Washington DC arguing for a country specific exemption for Australian super funds to avoid compliance burdens associated with the contentious FATCA regime. Under draft Foreign Account Tax Compliance ...

Barclays chief resigns

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned after coming under fire from both politicians and regulators in the wake of the Libor interest rate fixing scandal. In stepping down, Diamond said the "external pressure placed on Barclays has reached ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
The Australian market looks set to open slightly higher following moderate gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0750 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was up seven points at 4,061. In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian ...

FSC: Government drops opt-in requirement

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
The Financial Services Council has accused the government of "walking away" from the "centrepiece" of the FOFA reforms by dropping the opt-in requirement for advisers. The FSC said it was responding to FOFA amendments tabled in parliament today, maintaining ...

Unions, AIST hit back at Abbott comments

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... political agenda and threatening millions of Australians' retirement income. "This is the leader of the alternative Government of the nation signalling very clearly his intention to attack one of the best performing sectors of the superannuation industry," ...

GESB appoints new CEO ahead of reform

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... interests of members," Rosario said. "This will stand them in good stead when the choice of super is introduced by the government of Western Australia." Rosario replaces Michelle Dolin, who stepped down in June last year. This was just prior to the completion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... percentage point. Milan shares jumped 2.91 per cent as investors hailed the approval of an austerity budget by the government of new Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. Monti's cabinet gave its go-ahead to the crisis-busting plan on Sunday, estimating ...

SG rise through House of Representatives

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... Mark Rantall. However the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) is slamming the hike, accusing the government of sneaking it through parliament "on the coat tails" of the mining tax. "It's been hidden, away from sight; it hasn't been subject ...

Shape up or ship out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... gave the world. Democracy - that which US President Abraham Lincoln referred to in his Gettysburg Address as the "government of the people, by the people and for the people." Papandreou was being too clever by half. He doesn't want to take the heat just ...

Industry funds not our focus: Cormann

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... part of the wealth management market. However, the regulatory arrangement has to be fair, it shouldn't be about the government of the day acting as an agent of industry super funds waging war on everybody else."