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Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... if the private sector is spending - which, based on the latest capex report, it is not. It's time for the Australian government to engage in "crowding in" fiscal policy... but the crowd may need to out Tony and Hockey first before this happens.

Zenith recommends Perpetual, Australian Property funds

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... The APF is also one of the very few open-ended unlisted property funds to be declared compliant under the Australian government's Significant Investor Visa guidelines (SIV).

Super tax subs worth $30bn in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... the cost of these superannuation taxation subsidies is increasingly being drawn into arguments over the Australian government's fiscal and social equity priorities. Despite the figures being published regularly in their current form, Treasury has again ...

Profile: MTAA Super chief executive Leeanne Turner

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... at the time so I chose one that was close to where I was living," she says. "And that happened to be the Australian Government Retirement Benefits Office [AGRBO]." Turner ended up working there for more than 20 years. In 2001 Turner was offered a job ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... carbon dioxide emitters - signing an historic deal to significantly curb their carbon emissions. While the Australian government may have moved away from climate action, Australian institutional investors took some major steps towards reducing their ...

Women-led companies better for investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
The Australian government yesterday released its first Gender Equality Scorecard and while the results are discouraging, a separate international report released by Credit Suisse shows that investors make more money investing in women-lead enterprises. ...

Climate induced GFC a 'very real' risk: Hewson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... think, will next year move towards an agreement on carbon reductions, emission reductions and so on, and [the Australian government] will be playing catch-up. It's almost a siege mentality in the Abbott cabinet these days on the issue of climate change ...

ASX tees up $65m Yieldbroker deal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... for trading over 800 Australian and New Zealand debt securities and interest rate derivatives, including Australian government and semi-government bonds, treasury notes, corporate bonds, floating rate notes, New Zealand government bonds, interest rate ...

Expand PLS to all age pensioners: TAI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... cover home extensions or defer land taxes plus in the US 26 States have similar schemes as well, so the Australian government's position as a financial services provider is not unique, noted the TAI paper. "When [the] administrative efficiency [of Centrelink] ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... Assistant Governor (Economic) from 1996 to 2001, prior to his appointment as Deputy Governor" in December 2001. (Australian Government, The Treasury). For starters, GG does not subscribe to tale of China crashing and burning. "Growth in China has remained ...