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Turnbull expected to dust off shelved policies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... the government's response to the FSC, the PJC inquiry into advice, the Life Insurance Framework and the Tax Reform white paper will depend on how far Turnbull goes in reshuffling the cabinet. A replacement of the Treasurer, the Assistant Treasurer or ...

Super doing its job: Actuaries Institute

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
The superannuation system is doing its job, a newly published white paper from the Actuaries Institute has concluded, but Financial System Inquiry chair David Murray argues it must be removed from political intervention. The new paper, 'For Richer or ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... benefits of the parent company, including governance and transparency." Is now the right time to get into Japan? A recent white paper by BNY Mellon analyses a scenario where four of the world's biggest economies - the US, China, India and Japan - "stop ...

Frydenberg relaxed about SMSF borrowing

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... able to apply the standard trust tax rules. Frydenberg said from more than 870 formal submissions to the Re:Think tax white paper, more than 300 discussed retirement income issues, including the relationship between superannuation and the Age Pension. ...

Growth or crisis, always reasons to worry in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... thrive again, BNY Mellon managing director for Asia Pacific Simon Cox said. At the presentation of BNY Mellon's new white paper, 'G4: Undiminished expectations', Cox said: "There are always reasons to worry [in Australia], but the reasons change." The ...

Extend compulsory super to self-employed: ASFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... assets sufficient to support a comfortable standard of living in retirement," ASFA's submission to the government's tax white paper argued. Chief executive Pauline Vamos warned that "we cannot ignore the large proportion of self-employed Australians ...

Insurance advisers focusing on client segmentation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... popular topic in financial advice. As reported in Financial Standard, Connected Convenience, another recent Beddoes white paper - co-produced with Zurich and the Association of Financial Advisers - addresses this issue from a communications standpoint. ...

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 ...

Advisers should beware industry "frenemies"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... Financial Advisers chief executive Brad Fox. Speaking in Sydney at the launch of the AFA/Zurich/Beddoes Institute white paper, Connected Convenience, Fox said that multiple industries - including supermarkets selling life insurance products, industry ...

GST increase would deliver $42 billion: FSC

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... unsustainable with an ageing population and baby boomers moving out of the workforce. Among the FSC's submission to the Tax White Paper are four key proposals including a 22% company tax rate by 2020; lower personal income taxes; abolition of state stamp ...