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Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... announced by Social Services Minister Scott Morrison prior to the budget release. Although in his budget speech, federal Treasurer Joe Hockey did say the Age Pension "will continue to increase, twice a year, this year, and every year - at the highest ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... first-class dividend stock". I could only surmise that it's the uncertainty surrounding the great reveal of Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's second Budget (or is it Social Services Minister Scott Morrison's first?). Prime Minister Tony Abbot "promised" ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... housing finance figures for March are released, the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey is due out and Treasurer Joe Hockey hands down the federal budget in the evening. In equities news, Coca-Cola Amatil holds its annual general meeting ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... redeploy our savings and redeploy government expenditure into areas of growth in the economy". That's the Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey in black and white. And it gets better, better, better. Commodity prices are picking up - iron ore's up 1.2%, oil's ...

End heavy weighting in US equities: Tempo AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... largest bull market in the US history has delivered "a remarkable performance but it's also very unusual," Tempo principal Joe Bracken warned. "Annual US returns have been nearly 10% higher than the average non-US market over the past five years," he ...

Hockey launches Serious Financial Crime Taskforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey will allocate millions to a taskforce that will fight "serious and organised financial crime." The Government will provide $127.6 million over four years to the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce to investigate and prosecute cases ...

That elusive 6000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... export - iron ore - has started rebounding, up 5.5% to US$57.81 per tonne instead of heading down the forecast US$40 per or Joe Hockey's reported Budget assumption of US$35. So too have the price of crude oil - on both measures. Brent is up 37.3% to ...

Hockey slams Labor super tax proposal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey has responded to Labor's suggestion of a 15% tax on super earnings above $75,000, saying, "Labor's default position is always to increase taxes." In an interview, Hockey said he hadn't looked at the "details" of Labor's announcement ...

No changes to neg gearing, super in Budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... superannuation tax concessions. While Frydenberg made no claim to be speaking officially on behalf of the Prime Minister or Treasurer Joe Hockey, Frydenberg's comments are significant as he is widely considered to a be credible and rising star inside ...

Hockey commits cash to infra partnerships plan

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
Australia will provide $25 million to the World Bank Group's Global Infrastructure Facility, said Treasurer Joe Hockey in a statement. The Facility will be used to build public-private infrastructure partnerships to streamline "greater private sector ...