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PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2006
... supported by both major political parties and the union movement but opposed by employer groups. In effect the decision grants an extra 72c per hour to these workers and 58 cents per hour for those over $700 per week. The Fair Pay Commission says that ...

ACT govt slashes SG

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2006
... rise to 10 per cent where employees voluntarily contribute an added 3 per cent to their super. Data from the Commonwealth Grants Commission revealed the ACT's cost of superannuation to be 139 per cent above the national benchmark.

Qld to dominate Future Fund board of guardians

... particularly between NSW and Victoria and how they subsidise Queensland through disproportionately high GST and other commonwealth grants, the Queensland domination of the Future Fund has been intriguingly timed. Appointees to the board of guardians ...

School kids should be financially literate: Commonwealth

... Australians. This week the group chose 100 recipients from more than 280 applications to receive $3,500 Financial Literacy Grants. Schools can use these funds to design a teaching aid focusing on improving the financial literacy of Year 7 to Year 12 ...

ASIC says FSR refinements on track

... refinements it has released in the last three months, including Statements of Advice, and various policy statements on grants of relief and guidance for product issuers and advisers. In the pipeline for release this month, says ASIC, is a policy statement ...

APRA grants Watson Wyatt RSE Licence

Watson Wyatt Superannuation, approved trustee company of the Melbourne based superannuation and human capital consulting firm Watson Wyatt Australia, has been granted an RSE Licence by APRA. Watson Wyatt Director, Andrew Boal, says the company, trustee ...

APRA grants first superannuation licence to REST

APRA granted REST Superannuation its new registrable superannuation entity (RSE) license. The license was granted under APRA's new superannuation licensing regime for superannuation trustees. "I am very pleased that the REST Trustee is the first RSE ...

Productivity Commission to crack down on homeowners' scheme loopholes

... Productivity Commission revealed today. In its discussion paper on first home ownership, released today the Commission said the grants did not make a substantial difference to struggling families, and should be targeted at homebuyers in the greatest ...

ASIC grants AFSL exemption to financial counselling agencies

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced it has granted conditional relief from the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensing requirements to financial counselling agencies that provide financial product advice. ...

CBA announces a 24% reduction in profits for the year

... charging against the profit restructuring costs of $214 million and $45 million representing the cost for two years of grants of share to employees under the employee share plan," said John Ralph, chairman of CBA. He said that growth in cash profit was ...