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Financial services industry unites for marriage equality

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... weeks' time. Australian Marriage Equality (AME), the organisation behind the campaign, will give the letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott on August 17, the first day of the next Parliament sitting. Banking institutions supporting the initiative are ANZ ...

Class makes final director appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... its board. Following the recent announcement of three new directors, Class chairman Barry Lambert named the appointment of Tony Fenning today. Lambert said Fenning has the background needed to round out the board. Fenning was appointed chief executive ...

Blue Sky acquires majority stake in HPS

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... rates of chronic diseases including cancer and the increasing ability to medically treat patients," said HPS chief executive Tony Wyatt. "We provide a high level of support to the pharmacy network, enabling them to provide a better service, which ultimately ...

Labor demands to see Treasury papers on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... Information request by Labor to federal Treasury allegedly shows the Expenditure Review Committee, chaired by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, was considering changes to superannuation tax concessions until Labor announced its superannuation plans. The Treasury ...

Is content king for super funds?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... 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 because people say, 'Oh, well here's a super fund with an opinion.'" ...

Advice firm acquires $1bn accountancy business

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... rising demand for AFG services as accountants' up-skill to better align with client needs," he added. AFG was founded by Tony Zulli and has just under $1 billion in funds under advice from over 2,000 SMSFs. Zulli said that the acquisition will allow ...

Shadow Treasurer will go to election over super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... in just four years. This is a challenge for budget sustainability that must be met right now." Bowen said Prime Minister Tony Abbott promised not to touch superannuation but already had by freezing the superannuation guarantee at 9.5%. The announcements ...

Super concessions key to tax review

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... to super in this term of parliament and we have no plans to make adverse changes to super in the future," Prime Minister Tony Abbott said shortly after the budget was released. Government sources told Fairfax that Abbott is not planning to make changes ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's second Budget (or is it Social Services Minister Scott Morrison's first?). Prime Minister Tony Abbot "promised" that this one would be a "pretty dull and pretty routine" budget. Then again, with Tony Abbott, we can never ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... Varoufakis in the talks reportedly relegated "the interpretation of this is that progress can only accelerate from here", said Tony Cross, Trustnet Direct's market analyst. The euro rose to $US1.0909 from $US1.0873 late in New York on Friday. HONG KONG ...