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PC releases Efficiency and Competition Review issues paper

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
The Productivity Commission has released an issues paper outlining how it will be approaching its latest efficiency and competition review of the superannuation system. The review was commissioned by Treasurer Scott Morrison earlier this year as part ...

Retirement income goal would solve super's issues: CSRI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
An agreed income goal for Australia's retirement system would solve issues around superannuation's taxes and default schemes, as well as its cost and efficiency. This is the view in a new discussion paper by the Committee for Sustainable Retirement ...

New framework for in-house investing

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... managed in-house, that is where the agreement ended. "There was a striking range of views on how to conceptualise the problem, and the management issues deemed most important. For instance, some consider the ability to tailor investments towards fund ...

Gender pay gap worsening: ACTU

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
With International Women's Day around the corner the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has renewed calls for the federal government to make gender inequality a priority. The ACTU's updated gender pay gap report shows 60% of women aged between ...

Tax incentives for early stage investors too narrow: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
KPMG believes Treasury's policy consultation on tax incentives for early stage investors is unnecessarily restricted and argues unit trusts should also be eligible for the incentives. The firm's submission also raises concerns that investment into innovation ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... ranted many, many times before... the A$ depreciation is a 'de facto' easing in monetary policy and it's working. The problem now is that Australia's good tidings are sending the A$ back up again. This is compounded by our neighbours - ECB and BOJ, among ...

DomaCom given A+

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... a broad number of qualitative and quantitative factors. The DomaCom platform is an innovative solution to the age old problem of investing in real estate, which is its high upfront cost. The fractional model gives investors the ability to diversify and ...

Governance reform not targeting industry funds: O'Dwyer

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... comments once again referenced "recent examples." "As I have said publicly many times, the Government does not have a problem with industry funds. While some of the most recent examples of problems do relate to industry funds, these problems are not ...

Bad news on global activity and prices is the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
Global economy heading towards contraction, that's the good news A bounce from oversold conditions, short-covering rally, cheapened valuation, or another jump on the price of oil which is a positive for energy companies (and the banks that lent to them) ...

A negative sum game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... week as the wealth effect that this engenders would help alleviate the world's central banks persistent and pestering problem with growth and inflation. Perhaps then they could stop blaming the "global economy" and end their race to the bottom. Yes Virginia ...