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A sobering lesson from a social move gone wrong

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... Twitter. The adviser, who has over 5,800 followers, was critical of the insurance agreement made public last week by the Treasury and industry representatives. Howarth's status as an authorised representative of Libertas Financial Planning was revoked ...

TCorp becomes $70bn investment giant

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) has become one of Australia's top 10 asset managers after State Super outsourced its funds management activities to the now $70 billion investment giant. This is the latest phase of an amalgamation process that started ...

First State Super appoints two board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... quality financial advice." Furlan was appointed by the Secretaries of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Treasury acting jointly as a First State Super Trustee Corporation Employer Entity. Thomas was appointed by the Victorian Healthcare ...

ISA appoints retirement policy adviser

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... industry fund members and the broader Australian community. Previously, Gallagher played a central role in the Federal Treasury as director of the retirement income modelling taskforce and in the development of superannuation, personal tax and income ...

Light at the end of the tunnel for EM debt

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... January 2015, it took one and a half months before emerging markets debt followed the slide in global yields, led by the US Treasury and the German Bund. But with the yields of American and German treasuries rising sharply in the last few weeks, "emerging ...

The unborn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... minister Michael Noonan. Perhaps. But then again, allow me to present exhibit 1 - Lehman Brothers - the Fed and the US Treasury also thought they were prepared to let it go (let it go) in October 2008 and then the brown stuff hit the whirling stuff. ...

Mi problema su problema

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... time I recall the Yankees wading in on on the Greek crisis issue. (I remember them meddling in many others though). US Treasury secretary Jacob Lew "...in a phone call on Tuesday with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, warned Athens that a failure ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... led to calls for him to tone down his rhetoric to reach an agreement. With the stalemate showing no signs of ending, US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told Tsipras in a phone call on Tuesday he should make "a serious move to reach a pragmatic compromise ...

Treasury extends tax debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced the submissions deadline for the Tax White Paper will be extended by six weeks to July 24. Hockey said that this was because of the "strong public response" to the whitepaper along with "stakeholder interest in the ...

Rice Warner debunks super myths

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... through lower earnings in the retirement years. Rice said one of the major myths was that tax concessions are equal. "Treasury provides a figure of about $32 billion but this assumes that, in the absence of any tax incentive for superannuation, people ...