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Chief economist update: Surplus here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... dividends from the Future Fund of $5.1 billion (versus $3.8 billion). Australia's deposed prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, must be wishing the report was released sooner so that it wasn't Finance Minister Mathias Cormann telling us, Australians ...

Chief economist update: Confidence down, conditions up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
Et tu, Brute? The Australian version of the Shakespearean drama, Julius Caesar, that saw Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull politically assassinated (and replaced with the Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison) in the dying days of August may have played a ...

Industry fund awards fixed income ESG mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
... invest in global credit and government bonds. PIMCO already holds mandates from LGS. LGS chief investment officer Craig Turnbull said the fund is pleased to continue its long standing relationship with PIMCO. "[Their] investment strategy perfectly complements ...

Australia's weekus horribilis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... markets hate uncertainty. The week of 20-24 August began with a challenge to sitting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's leadership of the Liberal Party and ended with the sitting Treasurer Scott Morrison emerging as the country's 30th Prime ...

Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister, markets react

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... at times, constrains the capacity of successive governments to pursue policy changes." Outgoing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he would quit the parliament "not before too long." In the previous leadership spills in 2010, 2013 and 2015, Australian ...

Farmers should urgently access super: Advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... time limit for receiving the FHA from three to four years was introduced to Parliament on June 20. Overnight on Twitter, Turnbull also said the asset threshold will also increase to $5 million, which means 27,000 families and single farmers who are currently ...

ASIC staff to investigate institutions from the inside

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... joint statement, Treasurer Scott Morrison and Minister for Financial Services and Revenue Kelly O'Dwyer said: "The Turnbull Government is committed to ensuring ASIC is equipped with the resources and powers it needs to effectively detect, deter and ...

SuperStream changes consultation opens

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... Services Kelly O'Dwyer said the change would make it easier for Australians choosing to manage their own super. "The Turnbull Government is supporting Australians who choose to manage their own superannuation through an SMSF by making it easier for them ...

Government cuts SMSF red tape

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
The move by the Turnbull Government to release a discussion paper to change the annual audit cycle for some self-managed superannuation funds to three years has been welcomed by the SMSF Association. Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly ...

Amnesty granted to employers with unpaid SG

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... 2014-15. "While this represents a 95% compliance rate, any level of non-compliance is unacceptable, which is why the Turnbull Government is giving the ATO the tools it needs to enforce compliance going forward," Minister of revenue and financial services ...