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Allow couples to hold joint super accounts: Rice Warner

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... should be allowed to have a joint account for their superannuation, Rice Warner proposed in its pre-budget submission to Treasury. "We set out the logic of this arrangement in a newsletter last year and had positive feedback from the superannuation industry," ...

Super tax subs worth $30bn in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... release the latest edition of the Intergenerational Report and recommence the Senate battle to pass its 2014-15 Budget, Treasury has released its Tax Expenditures statement showing that superannuation tax subsidies are still one of the most expensive ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... price-setting has increased and could adversely affect medium-term price developments." This is the same day that former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told his audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2015 that, "Deflation and secular stagnation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... Alibaba added 3.35 percent, Amazon 2.8 percent and Google 2.3 percent. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury rose to 1.85 percent from 1.81 percent Tuesday, while the 30-year jumped to 2.44 percent from 2.40 percent. Bond prices and ...

Former FSC policy head gets government role

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... time as the industry body's director of policy. The news of Codina's appointment was confirmed by a spokesperson for the Treasury.

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... 534,176 funds representing 1,011,686 members and $543 billion. Each of Australia's financial regulators - ASIC, APRA and Treasury - have said this year that they do not think the sector needs any additional regulation to manage the risk of members managing ...

UBS chairman appointed Secretary to the Treasury

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
A former chairman of UBS Global Asset Management has been appointed Secretary to the Treasury. John Fraser occupied the role more than twenty years ago, when Paul Keating was Treasurer. Since then, he has been based in London and worked for the private ...

High-calibre superannuation: 2014 CIO and COO Award recipients announced

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... "The volatility in global markets and corporate Australia has upped the pressure on finance teams this year in operating treasury. But the uncertainty has also created opportunity for the skilled CFO and their commercial teams to shine. The additional ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... of Services Index (PSI) is due out. ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft is slated to address to the National Press Club while Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson attends an Australian British Chamber of Commerce lunch to discuss the case for tax reform. In equities ...

Register to include qualifications, association membership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... financial adviser register will include adviser's qualifications and professional association memberships by March 2015, Treasury has confirmed. A statement by the department confirmed that the register will also include the adviser's name, registration ...