Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 271 - 280 of 535 results for "Opposition"

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... 0.32 per cent, or 6.39 points, to 1,999.73. The yen edged up slightly as investors weighed reports that Japan's main opposition party would vote against one of the government's nominations for deputy governor of the country's central bank. Hong Kong ...

MySuper still ontrack despite low license applications

ALEX DUNNIN, LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... The slower than expected flow of applications coincides with a public policy political war between the government and opposition over superannuation tax concessions, stirring fears of a lack of confidence that the MySuper reforms will survive should ...

Stop using super as political pawn: Narev

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... follow the Labor government's attempts to undermine the coalition's election bid by capitalising on iterations that the opposition would call off the increase in contributions. On Tuesday night opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey was forced to clarify ...

Suggestions we don't support 12% CSG lies: Hockey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey has been forced to clarify the Coalition's stance on the increase in compulsory superannuation contributions from 9% to 12% for the second time in a week. The Government pounced on a note in the parliamentary ...

Politicians move 'super' goal posts at their peril

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... "Governments can't flip flop about and suddenly shift the goal posts as we near retirement." The current Government and the opposition have drawn lines in the sand about what changes they think should be applied to superannuation and it is shaping up ...

Policy team reshuffles at ASFA

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... backdrop of potential changes to the superannuation system being put forward by the Gillard Government and the Federal Opposition in the lead up to the September election, Vamos said ASFA was charged with making sure that laws were fair and in the best ...

Back-off super: FSC missive to Canberra

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... date last week, speculation has abounded over the respective policy changes that either the Federal Government or the opposition would make, which include revisions of tax concessions. "Continued speculation about changes to tax rates and super arrangements ...

Dignity Super's main aim, ASFA reminds politicians

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... reminded the Federal Government yesterday. Speculation over changes that both the Gillard Government and the Federal Opposition would make to superannuation tax concession legislations has increased after an election date (14 September) was set by Prime ...

Ripoll thanks industry for reforms support

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... reforms such as the Future of Financial Advice legislation (FoFA) had been criticised, both by industry and the Federal Opposition, "the vast majority" of businesses have supported the changes. "I'd like to acknowledge and thank the industry for their ...

Coalition wants fund governance changes: Fletcher

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... Bradfiled who sits on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on corporations and financial services, has voiced the Federal Opposition's concerns about superannuation fund governance. Speaking yesterday in Melbourne at an Industry Superannuation Network seminar ...