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Limbo of uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... changes - the latest of which is the KRudd's plan to scrap the carbon tax and move into ETS sooner and plugging the revenue hole this will create in the budget by raising taxes elsewhere or limiting spending somewhere else. We can debate the pros and ...

Super is working but needs to evolve: ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
The superannuation system is working but is transitioning, according to a report by Deloitte Access Economics that was commissioned by ASFA. The report, 'Maximising Superannuation Capital', released today at the ASFA Investment Interchange seminar ...

Investors need income rethink after RBA rate cut

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... volumes and improved trade performance, growth in household spending is nowhere near enough to fill the $30 billion growth hole in the domestic economy in FY14/15 following the lessening of the mining investment boom," he said. "The domestic reporting ...

ASFA warns govt against Super raid

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... the government may be planning a tax grab from the country's $1.5 trillion superannuation savings pool to plug a surprise hole in the budget. Earlier in the month the government announced a series of proposed changes to superannuation taxation, which ...

ASMA dismayed by proposed super hikes

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... dollars anyway. The Tax Expenditure Statement produced by the government suggests that super tax concessions put a $32 billion hole in the budget. However, that number is disputed by Pauline Vamos, chief executive, Association of Superannuation Funds ...

Bond investors beware interest rate risk

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
Institutional investors who focus their investment strategies too heavily on the 'great rotation' out of bonds and into equities are likely to be caught out by the inherent risks that still pervade the market, according to a new report from the BlackRock ...

Industry groups join forces to mount super campaign

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... but for any future party in charge of the country's retirement system. "Tax changes to super now may help plug the Budget hole [but] will create a bigger hole which will fall on future tax payers," he said.

Back-off super: FSC missive to Canberra

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
All Australian political parties have been told to leave superannuation laws alone by the Financial Services Council, which said that the industry has 'had enough'. Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden this morning hit out at politicians ...

Spain here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... million in costs and damages to 13 local councils for its "misleading and deceptive" rating? I would stop digging S&P... the hole's big enough.

Labor's $30bn secret super tax plan revealed

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... have to pay $30 billion in increased super taxes to assist the Labor government to pay for its $120 billion budget black hole. Cormann said that instead of standing up for Australians doing the right thing by saving for their retirement, Shorten is hard ...