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AVCAL appoints ICAA exec as CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2013
... Australand Property Group. He also has experience as a policy adviser with the Federal Department of the Treasury in Canberra. "Yasser's front-line experience in working constructively with the government on business policy issues and, at the same time ...

Australian Ethical pays out $300k in redundancies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... retail super fund Australian Ethical will make a number of employees redundant following a "substantial reduction" of its Canberra office. In a release published on the ASX website, Australian Ethical chief executive Phil Vernon said, "The financial ...

Coalition to save $1.6bn via SG delay

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... coalition needed to find. "The coalition is absolutely committed to living within its means," Mr Hockey told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday. "After six years of Labor getting every single budget number wrong, enough is enough." The coalition's plan ...

ISN criticises "irresponsible" CPA super report

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... off excessive debt In the executive summary, the report's author, Simon Kelly, adjunct professor at the University of Canberra, wrote: "[I]n the context of this study, which examined superannuation and household savings, the verdict is that accumulated ...

Too much super diverted to pay personal debt: CPA report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... verdict' commissioned and released by CPA Australia was prepared by Simon Kelly, adjunct professor at the University of Canberra and formerly a principal research fellow at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling. The focus of the report ...

Super funds should use soft power, not quotas to fix gender equality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... beyond just being about the investment money they manage," she said. Conway, speaking to a Women In Super function held in Canberra yesterday said, "We don't want quotas but we support processes to address the problem. I see no appetite in this country ...

But industry bodies see FoFA delay "unlikely"

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... require changes to the legislation, but the last parliamentary sitting before the federal election was held yesterday in Canberra. "I can't see space for a delay, this shifting of dates seems unlikely to happen," the Financial Planning Association (FPA) ...

Shorten maps out government super legacy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... Superannuation and Financial Services, has used a speech to a Financial Services Council (FSC) dinner at Parliament House in Canberra to assertively defend the government's reform record on superannuation. Shorten listed a range of policy milestones ...

AUI investors approve property fund merger

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... the creation of a $360 million property fund holding commercial properties in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, and Perth. If the proposal goes ahead, the combined fund is expected to have an occupancy rate of 93.28 per cent and a strong ...

Yuan to float free, in our dreams

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013