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AFA urges Independents to help change FOFA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2012
... Canberra last week on the issue. "We met with the key advisers of Independents, we had forthright and honest dialogue with the Greens and the Government and we continue to have good ongoing dialogue with the Coalition," said Klippin. "After the release ...

Cutting super tax breaks unwise: SPAA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
The Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia has weighed into the industry debate on the Greens' call to raise the superannuation tax for high income earners. Green leader Bob Brown yesterday proposed a scaled tax on super contributions ...

Super tax concessions in spotlight

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... Roundtable yesterday in response to ideas raised at the Tax Forum in October last year. Pressure has been mounting from the Greens to scale back superannuation tax concessions on the basis they unfairly advantage higher income earners. The announcement ...

Hunter Hall executive board changes

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... Edwards' has also held senior advisory roles with the Wilderness Society, Australian Conservation Foundation, the Australian Greens and Animals Australia. "She [Naomi] brings high intelligence and deep experience in investment management and finance ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... Australian dollar and within a week celebrity union leader Paul Howes was calling for 'buy Australian' incentives. The Greens and other parts of the union movement quickly followed suit demanding yet another government review and reintroduction of protectionism. ...

Super funds mindshift imperative

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
The strength of the superannuation industry will come down to a mindshift of super funds, something that is already underway according to financial services software group, IQ Business Group. Super funds have reportedly begun moving towards a member-centric ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Yeouch! You can hear this cry from New York to Rio and old London town as financial markets received a battering. Somebody must have forgotten to tell the markets it's only August and not October. Equity markets, commodity markets and bond yields (bond ...

Sunny side up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... bearing fruit. All, it seems, are now walking on the sunny side of the street -- even Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Australian Greens Party leader Bob Brown.

Commonwealth trustee reforms passes Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... thousands of military and civilian scheme members," said Senator Wong. The set of legislation passed with the support of the Greens, Senators Steve Fielding and Nick Xenophon, and a number of independents, but the Opposition did not back the changes. ...

AFA meets Independents, Greens, Shorten adviser

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has met with the key independent MPs, the Greens and the adviser to the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, to discuss reforms for the advice industry. Chief executive of the ...