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PC suggests removing excessive entry requirements for advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
In its fourth of five papers addressing productivity hurdles in Australia's economy ahead of the government's Economic Reform Roundtable, the Productivity Commission (PC) has recommended paring back some of the entry requirements that have impacted ...

Chalmers calls for solutions, not problems

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... solving. Ahead of the Roundtable, which will be held over three days from August 19 to 21, Treasury has released three issues papers around the three themes for the roundtable: resilience, productivity, and budget sustainability and tax reform. "The ...

Roads, railways, NBN winners in Budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... continent-wide SMS and basic voice service by 2027 through the use of new Low Earth Orbit Satellite technology," the budget papers read. To support regional Australia, the government pledged up to $130 million in secured loans to keep Rex Airlines operational ...

Payday super on track, but so is the $3m super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... documents state. In addition, the government confirmed payday super reforms are on track to start from 1 July 2026, with Budget papers reaffirming the timetable and a MYEFO investment of $404 million to meet it. The Super Members Council (SMC) said the ...

Beware creep of cancel culture into super fund governance: Lawyer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... complaint in the superannuation community that board packs can be 700 to 800 pages long, and a substantial proportion of those papers relate to approving policies and other operational matters," he said. "APRA rightly calls out that a board's role ...

Australian GDP growth 'steady but not solid': La Trobe

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... "Productivity growth is really the driver of long-term income growth," he said. "Our fairly positive GDP at the current moment papers over about eight of the last nine quarters, demonstrating negative GDP per capita, and it's become entrenched. "The ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
... generating commercial returns. "The priority areas are aligned with the Future Fund's thinking as set out in its position papers and consistent with its investment focus on seeking more local currency exposure and protection against sustained higher ...

Top advisers champions in two key areas: Iress

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
... practices were 45% faster at producing basic SOAs, 48% faster at producing complex SOAs, 60% faster at producing strategy papers and 58% faster at producing review documents. While the index found that the top performing advice practices were also more ...

Future Fund delivers strong 11.9% return

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... "Over the past 12 months we continued to invest in line with the analysis of market conditions expressed in our position papers, most recently, Geopolitics: The Bedrock of the New Investment Order." In the paper, Future Fund discussed a range of paradigm ...

VanEck to launch defence ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024
... as international peacekeeping has deteriorated. Australia has also committed to increasing its defence spending. Budget papers show that by 2033-34, defence spending will reach $100 billion (around 2.3% of GDP), up from last year's record $37 billion ...