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Markets await promising China leadership change

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2012
... be positive for investments." Where previous administrations have restricted reform, the world is anticipating a more liberal approach from the new regime. "Certainly the new leadership realises the importance of structural changes to maintain longer ...

Future Fund 'under-resourced' on climate risks

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... suffered "resource constraints." Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) Chair Dr John Hewson and former leader of the Liberal Party said: "It is quite extra-ordinary that Australia's largest fund which will have to supply pension liabilities over the ...

ACT prohibits guns & smokes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... than negative screening, he said. The minority Labor government in the ACT means the Greens will need the support of the Liberal Party for these extended provisions to pass the ACT's unicameral parliament. The anti-tobacco investment restrictions have ...

No roadblocks to success: Cormann

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... regulatory stability, which would enable financial services providers to get on with growing their businesses," he said. A Liberal government would not be a "roadblock to success" and would consult more widely with the industry to ensure that regulatory ...

MAFTA provides new Asian opportunities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
The Malaysia-Australia Free Trade Agreement (MAFTA), gives Australian financial services a much greater opportunity than the wider AANSFTA (ASEAN Australia New Zealand Free Trade Agreement) under which a previous 30% ownership cap was negotiated. "I ...

Midwinter empowers adviser software

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
Midwinter has implemented changes announced in the 2012 May Federal Budget in its Reasonable Basis advice modelling software, allowing advisers to alter tax settings. "It is a difficult time for financial planners due to the large amount of uncertainty ...

Lonsec: Australian equity markets ready to rebound

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... the Australian economy with an improving global growth outlook, particularly in the US and Asia but also Germany, and Liberal/National governments transitioning back to each State and most probably federally by 2013, the economic and earnings outlook ...

Shorten demands clarity of stance on SG rise

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten has hit back at the opposition leader's comments on the superannuation guarantee increase, asking for a clarification of position. Last week's passage of the minerals resource rent tax legislation with changes ...

FIRST Super invites Tony Abbott to board meeting

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... members". The fund's co-chair and employer representative Alan Stewart is hoping for "constructive dialogue" with the Liberal MP. "Our Board would like to share how employer and employee nominated directors work together, to build the retirement savings ...

TSCGEMU

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
It's a wrap! It took days of high drama to get there, but it got there eventually. That's the Greek second bailout package of course. Standard & Poor's didn't like it and lowered Greece's rating to "selective default". Moody's followed suit a few days ...