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Greens strike pension test deal with coalition

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
A deal between the Coalition and the Greens means special consideration will be given to retirement incomes in the federal government's Tax Discussion Paper, and proposed changes to the pension asset test will be passed by parliament. The deal was struck ...

Govt should support pensioner reverse mortgage access: CIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
The family home should be brought into the pension income test by requiring home-owning pensioners to take out a reverse mortgage, says the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) in a new report. While it's unlikely the government will take the advice ...

Treasury invites submissions to draft MIT tax changes

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
Treasury is inviting submissions on proposed changes to the tax system for managed investment trusts, which are aimed at improving the international competitiveness of Australian managed funds. The exposure draft legislation has been developed in close ...

Regional banks call for FSI reforms without delay

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
Australia's four leading regional banks raised three key issues in their submission to the federal government's Financial System Inquiry Final Report recently. Regional banks including Suncorp Bank, ME Bank, Bank of Queensland and Bendigo and Adelaide ...

Law firm deems SIV changes unworkable

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
Proposed changes to the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) aimed at pumping funds into small businesses and venture capital projects could spell disaster for the scheme because Chinese investors want low risk assets, according to law firm Hall & Wilcox. ...

Super Mario delivers huge stimulus package

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day... I guess you'd say What can make me feel this way?" Mario, Mario, Mario Talkin' 'bout Q-E Q-E. Yes Virginia, he did it. Super Mario brought sunshine to the financial markets on this, a cold and cloudy Frankfurt day. ...

Court approves Great Southern settlement

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
A $23.5 million settlement of a class action related to loans to investors hit by the billion dollar collapse of agribusiness Great Southern has won court approval. The agricultural projects manager, which raised $1.8 billion and managed 45 investment ...

Climate induced GFC a 'very real' risk: Hewson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... and CBA annual general meetings to force them to disclose their carbon risk exposure. Thanks to its high score ACCR did not deem it necessary to do so at the Westpac AGM. Hewson said he welcomed the ACCR's move to try and get the banks to understand ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... the politburo, in China's case). The CB's are in no hurry to lift interest rates. They would not lift a finger until they deem that their respective recoveries are self-sustaining... and even when they do, it would be ever so gently. That's the Fed and ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
The Memorial Day holiday in the US must have put Wall Streeters in a good mood - they came back a-shopping and sent the S&P 500 index up to a fresh record high. As the Bellamy Brothers sang, "There's a reason for the sunshine sky there's a reason why ...