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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
... finished 0.60 per cent higher at Sg$8.30 after an announcement that it and the Australian bourse had revamped their merger proposal, hoping to overcome objections to the deal. The city's Straits Times Index fell 0.76 per cent, or 23.76 points, to 3,080.66 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... throughout the day as investors weighed the impact of President Barack Obama's $US3.73 trillion ($A3.73 trillion) budget proposal for the next fiscal year. Obama's budget includes a five-year freeze on many domestic spending programs. The White House ...

ASIC retains key role as fin planning regulator: Shorten

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... that the financial planners ideally should have been registered under the Tax Agents Services Act Regime, the current proposal will achieve the similar outcome without the duplication of resources," said Andrew Conway, chief executive of National Institute ...

Treasury targets $18.8bn in lost super

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... to research conducted by Ernst & Young on behalf of the Financial Services Council (FSC). The FSC supported the draft proposal and the use of TFNs by super funds and the Australian Taxation Office to assist in account consolidation. "Allowing TFNs to ...

AMP names integration director as merger looms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... AXA APH's current franking position. It is expected that AXA APH shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on the proposal on 2 March, according to the statement. If shareholders give the go-ahead to the merger, the implementation date is expected ...

Coalition gives qualified support to reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
The Coalition isn't itching for a fight when it comes to the recently announced superannuation reforms, despite the Government's precarious grip on power under the hung parliament. In response to the reforms unveiled by the Government yesterday, the ...

Government unveils response to Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
The Government has welcomed most of the recommendations from the Cooper Review - but rejected several key proposals to do with MySuper. The Cooper Review originally recommended that there should be no cost cross-subsidisation between MySuper and other ...

Covered bond conundrum

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... each others' covered bonds on their balance sheets to meet liquidity requirements, he said. Scobie cautioned that the proposal to allow Australian institutions to issue covered bonds has some way to go before becoming reality. "It has to be passed though ...

Banking on a super precedent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... fund? The Treasury information pack notes that they have already developed a draft fact sheet template. The third is the proposal for portable bank account numbers. Again, if Bernie Fraser's Taskforce can build his argument about how this would work ...

Changes ahead for WA govt super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
A report commissioned by the WA Treasurer into the GESB demutualisation said the proposal was not in members interests and recommends major changes to WA public sector superannuation arrangements. In July 2009, the WA Treasurer appointed Rod Whithear ...