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Government fintech agenda spotlights microbanking

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... with superannuation funds would navigate the "huge systems issues" certain Budget measures will create. "Putting aside anything else, I think a whole range of superannuation service providers will be faced with a reasonable amount of costs to create ...

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... Eslake suggests there is no evidence at all to support the notion that preferentially taxing small businesses will do anything to boost "jobs and growth". "Over the five years to June 2015, small businesses (those with fewer than 20 employees) employed ...

SMSF rollovers hit $8 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... Fund, ANZ's OnePath Masterfund and the Mercer Super Trust. Rainmaker notes the outflow distribution between funds was anything but uniform. There were five funds seeing more than 3.5% of net assets rolled over to SMSFs in the year. "At the beginning ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... in as chief executive of America, Inc. "Donald, you're fired!" should be what Americans tell him if poll ratings are anything to go by. In her piece on al.com, Leada Gore wrote: "A recently released CNN/ORC poll shows Trump has the lowest approval rating ...

Opposition floats SMSF borrowing ban

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... problem," Cormann said. "If you have a concern about housing affordability, if you have a concern about the affordability of anything, the way to address it, overwhelmingly, is by increasing supply and overwhelmingly that is going to be the area that ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... on Syria by the US. The hope is cooler heads will prevails but with unpredictable Trump's fingers on the launch code, anything can happen. Trump has recently sent an armada of US naval ships to the seas off North Korea. The peace dividend the world enjoyed ...

Aussie investors push tobacco exclusions

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... structure for its Swiss-based parent bank, focuses on a small investable universe. "We won't go around the world and buy anything at the right price. We will only ever buy a limited set of things at the right price and only in our high-quality lens," ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
It could have been triggered by anything imaginable under the sun, but the financial markets' correction - due to Trump's repeal/replace Obamacare failure - should be seen as that, one that "corrects" overvalued levels that have run ahead of fundamentals. ...

Housing affordability threatens super's future

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... highly-priced, risky asset. "History shows that the overwhelming result of that policy would be an increase in the housing prices. Anything that allows Australians to spend more on housing than they already would results in more expensive housing rather ...

Bligh appointed ABA chief executive

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... they understand that it can't impose fines on banks or force banks to pay compensation, and it can't change laws or do anything other than make recommendations which the Government of the day is not bound to implement," Munchenberg said in an October ...