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Document leak puts NAB under the pump

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... South Wales Labor Senator Deborah O'Neill successfully moved to refer the auditing sector to an inquiry by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services in Parliament yesterday, with a final report due by March 1 2020.

SG debate puts super in a spin

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... leave the super guarantee at just 9.5% when they are beneficiaries of contributions of at least 15.4% under the parliamentary super scheme," Linden said. "Winding back the super guarantee would leave Australians worse off at retirement and increase the ...

Increasing SG costly for middle Australia: Grattan

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... appear to have paid for compulsory super via lower take-home wages. That's the view of the Henry Tax Review and the Parliamentary Budget Office." It is also the position held by Paul Keating, Bill Shorten and the Fair Work Commission in 2013. The Australian ...

Genetic tests no barrier to life insurance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... not. People in the group that was told about disclosures were more likely to decline the test. "We know that the Parliamentary Joint Committee recommended a moratorium for that and other reasons, but there could be different evidence put forward," Chen ...

Advice associations meet new minister

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, the Royal Commission and the Government's agenda for the upcoming parliamentary term. De Gori thanked the AFA for agreeing to "promote unity" through their joint meeting. "Thank you to new Minister Senator ...

British MPs prod own pension fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
UK members of parliament have backed a call to offload any fossil fuel investments held in the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund. More than 240 serving and former MPs have signed the 'Divest Parliament' pledge, calling on the fund's trustees to ...

Super gets an insider in ministry reshuffle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... Royal Commission show the sector requires strong leadership and a mandate for focused reform throughout the entire Parliamentary term. "The FSC will also urge the new team to deliver a comprehensive product rationalisation strategy to reduce inefficiency ...

Super stability not guaranteed: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... superannuation system. According to the firm, despite the Coalition's pledges to leave the system unchanged in the new parliamentary term, superannuation is not about to enjoy a period of stability as it faces up to the challenge of implementing the ...

Former Labor MP joins SMSFA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
A former Parliamentary Secretary was appointed to the board of the Self-Managed Super Fund Association. Bernie Ripoll has joined the SMSFA board, in a move described by chair Deborah Ralston as "invaluable" to the ongoing evolution of superannuation ...

Budget: RC response to cost over $600m

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... will cost $11.2 million in 2019-20. Finally, $900,000 in additional funding has been set aside for the Office of Parliamentary Counsel to deal with the volume of legislative drafting that will be required to implement the Government's responses to the ...