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Round two of Stronger Super revealed

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
Superannuation industry bodies have until January 13 to make submissions on the second tranche of the government's Stronger Super legislation, unveiled late yesterday. The latest exposure draft follows the introduction of the first part of the Superannuation ...

Christmas deadline for FOFA clarity: ANZ

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... be a hard or soft launch on July 1...once we get the answer it will start reducing a lot of the spend." With the first tranche of the FOFA legislation with the Senate Economics Committee until its March 14 report date, many in the industry are concerned ...

FOFA implementation time vital: ASFA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... implementation MySuper legislation, which was only tabled in parliament on November 3. "The mooted exposure draft of the next tranche of MySuper legislation is yet to be released, let alone the bill introduced into Parliament," said Vamos. "These delays ...

Industry hits out at Best Interest

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... "significant unintended consequences". The contentious proposal, which was tabled in parliament yesterday as part of the second tranche of FOFA, requires advisers to act in the best interests of clients and give priority to the interests of the client ...

FOFA Tranche 2 reforms tabled in Parliament today

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
The FOFA Tranche 2 reforms were tabled in parliament this morning, gaining industry support and reinforcing the Government's speed to move these reforms through both houses. Included in the Tranche 2 Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms are the ...

Political debate defers FOFA clarity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... will pass through both houses before Christmas. Added to this is the fact that the government has yet to bring the second tranche of reforms before MPs (though most believe this is likely to happen between the 21 and 24 November) with issues such as ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... tit for Papandreou's tat of pushing through more austerity measures to meet the EU/IMF terms for the next a,-8 billion tranche of rescue money just a week prior. Mr. Papandreou was able to convince the Greek parliament to pass his plan that involved ...

MySuper legislation introduced

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... the legislation yesterday as the next step to greater retirement savings for Australians. "Today, I introduce the first tranche of legislation to implement MySuper. This Bill amends the Superannuation Guarantee Administration Act 1992 and the Superannuation ...

Shape up or ship out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... all-in "referendum" gambit. Monsieur Sarkozy and Fraulein Merkel suspended the disbursement of the a,-8 billion rescue tranche until Greece makes up its mind to stay in the Eurozone and comply with its "pledge" to push on with austerity measures. At ...

Work in no progress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... failed the EU-ECB-IMF assessment - prompting the troika to call for the prompt disbursement of the next the a,-8 billion tranche of Greek aid. If only it was that simple. Remember that Greece's passing the troika's conditions of the rescue was a major ...