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Super to eclipse banks as primary lender: Cooper

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... regulatory infrastructure needed to make it work successfully. Earlier this week Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey promised a coalition government would investigate the infrastructural risks associated with any future role played by super in funding both business ...

No roadblocks to success: Cormann

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... yesterday - while strongly opposed by the Opposition when they were before parliament - would not be removed if the Coalition is put in power at the next election, because Cormann said it would only put financial services providers at a further disad ...

Wins and losses in PC default super report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... interests of members." Senator Cormann said, "The Productivity Commission's draft report released today confirms the Coalition's long-held view that the current process to select default superannuation funds under Modern Awards is not transparent, not ...

Go ahead Europe, make my day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
... oxymoron? But never fear, Angela is here. Reuters reported German Chancellor Angela Merkel told politicians in her ruling coalition that Europe would not have shared total debt liability "as long as I live". The anti-austerity crusaders now know what ...

FOFA passes as industry backs professionalism

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... go "a long way to restoring consumer confidence in super and protecting fund members from Trio-style disaster." The Coalition yesterday criticised the hurried passage of FOFA through the Senate in line with a July 1 soft start date. "It is extraordinary ...

Foreign MIS tax legislation delayed

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... on the associated benefits of higher growth, increased prosperity and growing government revenue." Whole the current Coalition sees the tax reform as important, the previous Coalition government saw the issue as low priority.

Coalition releases super manifesto

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... like a superannuation policy manifesto for the 2013 federal election. In a statement, Senator Cormann said a future the Coalition government will introduce a national superannuation clearing house through the Australian Taxation Office, expand competition ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... backs keeping the country in the euro zone, into power on the weekend. The party immediately proposed forming a pro-euro coalition government, easing, at least briefly, deep fears that the election would unleash an economic tsunami. As central banks ...

Eurozone to craft a reforms roadmap

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... placing second in an inconclusive election in which no party was able to either win an overall majority or broker a coalition government. But voters fed up with salary and pension cuts shifted their loyalties to more radical parties. The June 17 vote ...

Coalition clears up FOFA questions

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... month, the Opposition's spokesperson on Financial Services has provided details on what FOFA would look like under a coalition government. Speaking at an Association of Financial Advisers Budget reply lunch, Senator Mathias Cormann said the 16 recommendations ...