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Super funds condemn Trump climate withdrawal

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), representing $1.5 trillion in funds under management, has condemned US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Trump justified the ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... economy and commodity prices and, if I may add... the property market shackles that prevent the RBA from cutting interest rates. Yes, only yesterday we got a pleasant surprise from the ABS report that showed retail sales surged by 1.0% in the month of ...

Change of pace for Countplus

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
Countplus divested its shareholding in a NSW-based financial planning practice as part of a change in strategy aimed at investing in quality practices, not necessarily acquiring them. In a statement to the ASX yesterday, managing director and chief ...

SMSF associations announce merger

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
Two industry associations that collectively speak for more than 100,000 self-managed superannuation fund trustees are merging to create a united voice. The Self-managed Independent Superannuation Funds Association, established in 1998 to represent the ...

ASX creates more opportunities for investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
Listing smaller and foreign IPOs on the ASX will create greater opportunities for Australians as local investors gain exposure to offshore markets and technology companies, says ASX chief executive Dominic Stevens. Speaking at yesterday's Conference ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... expansionary fiscal policy changes in the United States as posing upside risks to their forecasts for U.S. economic growth..." Yes, Trump could provide that extra oomph but the FOMC's base case should be enough. The FOMC considered the March quarter ...

Colonial First State platforms make deferred annuities more accessible

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
Advisers will soon have access to Challenger's deferred lifetime annuities through Colonial First State platforms. Speaking at an adviser event in Sydney yesterday, CFS head of retail platforms Sam Wall announced that from 1 July 2017, Challenger products ...

Big four hammer bank levy

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
ANZ, CBA, NAB and Westpac have taken to the ASX to criticise the Government's new bank levy, with some saying it will hit customers hardest. Westpac chair Lindsay Maxsted said in an open letter that the new levy is "bad public policy that targets just ...

Senior executives sworn to secrecy over bank levy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
The five major banks are banned from consulting with their boards, customers or shareholders prior to the implementation of legislation around the new bank levy. In what the Australian Bankers' Association has labelled an extraordinary move, the Federal ...

Senior ATO official tangled in $165m fraud scandal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
One of the Australian Taxation Office's most senior and long-serving officials is expected to be charged in relation to an Australian Federal Police investigation into an alleged $165 million tax evasion syndicate. Deputy tax commissioner Michael Cranston ...