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Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
Last month's United Nations Climate Summit saw a flurry of announcements from some of the world's major institutional investors, ranging from pledges to divest from fossil fuels, to calls on governments to introduce carbon pricing. But how serious are ...

Don't ditch the RET, instos tell Abbott

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
A group of Australia's biggest institutional investors has written an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott calling on him to maintain the Renewable Energy Target (RET). The call came from the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), a body which ...

Govt to amend fund merger tax laws

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Abbott government has announced that it will go ahead with amendments to the tax rules around fund mergers to ensure members caught up in such mergers are not inadvertently hit with tax penalties. The amendments were proposed by the previous Labor ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
"Problems, problems, problems all day long Will my problems work out right or wrong?... Worries, worries pile up on my head Woe is me, I should have stayed in bed..." -- Everly Brothers A confluence of worries - old and new -- concerned Wall Street ...

Abbott's SG claim incorrect, survey finds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
The majority of businesses would fund a rise in the superannuation guarantee (SG) out of their own - not their employees' - pockets, according to survey commissioned by industry fund Sunsuper. This contradicts Tony Abbott's claim last week that the ...

SG freeze to hit young and low income earners hardest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
The government's decision to hold off raising the superannuation guarantee will cost young people tens of thousands of dollars in retirement savings, according to figures released by Industry Super Australia. A 25-year-old on $40,000 a year will miss ...

Govt seeks discretion to freeze super guarantee

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
The Treasurer may soon have discretionary power to further delay the rise of the superannuation guarantee to 12%, following the passage of legislation in the lower house yesterday. The legislation was part of a large suite of amendments labelled the ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Labor questions Murray, calls for another inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
The opposition has called for a further parliamentary inquiry into the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and the Commonwealth Bank and branded the government's plans to examine financial advice scandals as part of the Financial System ...

Government still mulling response on Senate report

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
The government will monitor the implementation of Commonwealth Bank's (CBA) Open Advice Review program announced today while it works on its response to the Senate Economics Committee report. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said that it was "appropriate ...