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Super lifetime cap could increase budget costs: Budget Office

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
Placing a lifetime cap on voluntary superannuation contributions could actually end up costing more money to the budget, a report by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) commissioned by the Greens found. The Greens commissioned the report in light ...

Growth of women on boards painfully slow: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... and momentum is growing. ACSI has a policy target of 30% female representation by 2017, and we'll continue to be a strong voice in this discussion, both in the investment community and in our engagements with companies." Other key findings included that ...

Government using super as "petri dish": Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
Labor's Jim Chalmers said the federal government sees superannuation as "some kind of petri dish for one ideological experiment after another" during a debate in federal parliament yesterday. The superannuation trustee governance bill won't be debated ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
The US Federal Reserve's decision to postpone the rate rise is keeping the world on hold. With volatility set to increase ahead of the rate hike, Laura Millan looks at the global investment opportunities. Just when everyone thought it would happen ...

FSC, FPA support ASIC user-pay model

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
Both the Financial Services Council and Financial Planning Association of Australia have voiced their support for an industry funding model for ASIC. On August 28, Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg welcomed industry consultation on the proposal while ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... out one of the aforementioned puppets and cajole a lonely grandmother into buying one (talking with his hand in a monkey voice, of course) for her grandchildren. "I was mortified," he laughs. "It was really pushy, like, 'Don't you care about your grandkids?' ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Australia's giant neighbours have been the world's largest source of growth for years. But the great investment opportunity is full of traps and markets often fall in erratic behaviours. Laura Millan asks eight key questions to understand Asia and to ...

Reading too much out of nothing at all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... Institutions Forum in London at the end of June. "Countless market and media antennae are trained on the sound of the central bank voice, trying to discern and amplify signals out of all the static around, even when the central bank has no new signal ...

EU instos shed banks, set up alternative trading venues

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... requirements," ICAP Australia and New Zealand chief executive Brad Howell told Financial Standard. ICAP, the world's largest voice and electronic dealer broker and provider of post trade risk services, has detected this trend in Europe, following the ...

ISA voices strong opposition to "radical" super reform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has warned that the government's proposal to remove equal representation in super fund boards "is radical" and constitutes the most significant change to the system since its inception. "There is a real risk that importing ...