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

Search Results

Showing 11 - 20 of 52 results for "Paul Keating"

AustralianSuper adds board director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... nominated on behalf of members and five directors nominated on behalf of employers. Russell was the principle adviser to Paul Keating during his terms as Treasurer and Prime Minister from 1985 to 1993. For the three years after this, Russell served as ...

New directors join Frontier Advisors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia. From 1991 to 1994 he was principal economic adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating. He is also a former head of economic planning and development for the Kingdom of Bahrain. Cole is chief executive of Dental ...

Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... next financial year and $59 billion over the medium term, he added. The dividend imputation system, introduced by Paul Keating in 1987, eliminates the double taxation of dividends on two levels: The tax companies pay on profits that are then distributed ...

BlackRock veteran joins Grant Samuel

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... Miller was a research officer for the Federal Treasury and also served as private secretary to then Prime Minister Paul Keating. "Steve brings over 30 years' experience in international economic and policy analysis to the GSFM team, both at the official ...

Superannuation savings reach $2.5 trillion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... countries super funds only invest 10% in the sharemarket," he said. Pratt's comments were echoed by former prime minister Paul Keating, who warned that local companies are at risk of being "underbanked" if the $2.4 trillion pool of savings doesn't fill ...

Jeremy Cooper explores the inconvenient truth of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... Speaking at the Financial Services Council Retirement Income Products Conference in Sydney, Cooper said that even Paul Keating understood this, given that he agreed the system was not designed for people who were going to live over 80. "The system he ...

Tracing super back to 1517

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
According to Dundas Global Investors senior partner Alan McFarlane, the true architect of superannuation wasn't Paul Keating - it was Martin Luther. While he admitted it was a long bow to draw, McFarlane told delegates at the Australian Institute of ...

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... to reverse the abolition of negative gearing for property investors - Hawke/Keating, 1987 In 1985, then-treasurer Paul Keating abolished negative gearing for all future property investors. It was intended to reduce tax sheltering opportunities in the ...

Capital Group reappoints former exec

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... Department of Foreign Affairs and trade, including heading the international division of PM&C under Prime Minister Paul Keating and was international advisor to Prime Minister John Howard. He served as Australia's ambassador to the United States from ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... financial system was never going to be as significant as the reviews headed by Sir Keith Campbell and Stan Wallis. Paul Keating pushed deregulation through after the Campbell Inquiry (1981) and Peter Costello created the "twin peaks" regulators of APRA ...