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The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... Lyrics" For a little while there, I was ready to give that knighthood to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot and his Treasurer Joe Hockey for turning "Bloody Monday" around into a "Bounce back Tuesday" and a "Top up Wednesday". Why so? Why so is because ...

Aligned execs join Fortnum in advice arm restructure

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
Fortnum Financial Group has restructured its financial planning business and appointed four executives from IOOF-owned Shadforth Financial Group, Commonwealth Bank and AMP-owned Genesys and Charter Financial Planning. As part of the restructure, Fortnum ...

Consensus emerging on Tax White Paper

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has reminded a business forum that the Tax White Paper is about how the government collects tax, not how much. Hockey told the PwC Tax Reform Forum in Melbourne yesterday that more than 800 submissions on the Tax White Paper ...

EOFY means new laws and new products

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... employers pay superannuation- during the first full year of operation from today. Later this month submissions are due for Joe Hockey's Tax White Paper (July 24) and on July 23 submissions are due for proposed changes to superannuation board governance. ...

Labor demands to see Treasury papers on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... concessions until Labor announced its superannuation plans. The Treasury documents are reported to show that federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey, received Treasury advice on superannuation tax reforms on four occasions, with the last being on 22 April 2015 ...

D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... and the fear du jour - Grexit - it was downhill from there. Not even the positive reception to Australian Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's second Budget nor the RBA's May interest rate reduction could get it back up again. Certainly gives meaning to that ...

Is content king for super funds?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... [sentence] that says we've got a great account-based pension, that doesn't engage anybody. But putting it into the context of what Joe Hockey has just said about account based pensions or what Tony Abbott's been saying, that suddenly becomes relevant ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... parties are here to stay. "There is an anti-austerity backlash in Europe and it is normal," Tempo Asset Management principal Joe Bracken says. Years of ECB-driven austerity policies have angered citizens and this feeling is now being translated into ...

Treasury extends tax debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced the submissions deadline for the Tax White Paper will be extended by six weeks to July 24. Hockey said that this was because of the "strong public response" to the whitepaper along with "stakeholder interest in the ...

Government to invest in fintech security

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... financial transactions, including a voice biometric, Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher announced. This follows Treasurer Joe Hockey's comments during the release of the 2015 Budget that the Government would assist in funding both a central online ...