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Choice system to cost $90m: CitiStreet

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... money and data exchange across the whole superannuation system. A "Super Clearing House" was proposed by the Federal Labor Party in mid 2006 and is currently on the agenda of the new Labor Government. A key aim of the proposed scheme is to provide a ...

Sunsuper appoints board member

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
Sunsuper has appointed Ron Monaghan, Queensland president of the Australian Labor Party, to director of the company's board. Monaghan was elected general secretary of the Queensland Council of Unions in November last year. He remains a board director ...

The new government: what it means

... superannuation-based 'first home owner' account and superannuation guarantee creeping up to 15 per cent are just some of the Labor party policies that could become law under the new government. Colonial First State, one of the biggest managed funds and ...

Labor supports financial services export push

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
The Shadow Minister for Trade and Regional Development, Simon Crean, has announced the Labor party's support for the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) May discussion paper on exporting Australia's financial services. Speaking at an ...

Howard flags infrastructure fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... Prime Minister John Howard has announced plans to establish an infrastructure fund similar to that proposed by the Labor party, with a minimum of one per cent of budget surpluses to go into the fund. The announcement came as part of his five-year plan ...

ALP wants industry funds on awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has attracted support from the financial services industry with their calls to cut foreign withholding tax, but their call to make industry funds the automatic default super choice for industrial awards is less likely ...

Brumbie: The only Budget numbers that matter

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... numbers that matter are what will it do to improve or weaken the chances of the Government being able to stop the Labor Party from getting the 16 seats it needs to win the Lodge. This game takes on a life of its own when you overlay how while the Government ...

New Jersey Govt spends teachers' future fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... New Jersey Turnpike. The scandal raises similar themes to those debated last month in Australia, when the Australian Labor Party announced it would use the Future Fund to finance a Fibre To The Node (FTTN) broadband network in Australia. The Federal ...

ALP Govt will boost personal contributions: Swan

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... It's taken two decades, but it seems superannuation is looming as an election issue, albeit a lower order one, as the Labor Party and the Government slug it out over which Party has the best future plan for the industry and for investors. Shadow Treasurer ...

...while Dutton says Labor is missing the MIS point

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... Senator O'Brien said on 8 February. However, in Parliamentary Question Time yesterday he appeared to contradict the the Labor Party position. "Yesterday in the other place, Senator Heffernan said in the House that I had given a commitment on behalf of ...