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Indigenous super on Canberra agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... agencies can assist. The Working Group has also called for indigenous superannuation to be put on the agenda of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG). Working Group chair, Eva Scheerlinck, said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have ...

Super board changes ignore past lessons: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... their effectiveness before changing legislation." The Shadow Treasurer said Labor remained committed to establishing a Council of Superannuation Custodians - a body which would advise the government of the day every five years on future changes to the ...

Financial services fail to share mental health data

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... important data for measuring employee mental health against wider standards. According to a new report by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), only a third of financial services companies disclose workforce turnover rates, just ...

IFAs to benefit from ASIC SME focus

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... Greg Tanzer has highlighted the regulator's expanding role in the SME registration space. Speaking at the National Council of Small Business Australia Conference in Sydney, Tanzer noted that small businesses, with fewer than 20 employees, represent ASIC's ...

ACSI targets male-dominated boards

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors has written to the chairs of over 30 ASX 200 companies regarding the lack of female representation on their boards. The goal was to remind these companies - which either had just one female director ...

Greece in crisis (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... last-ditch EMU compromise on austerity" - 19 Feb "Eurozone would be better off without Greece, says Germany's influential council of economic ministers as "very difficult" talks begin in Brussels" - 20 Feb 0427 PM GMT And then (drum roll, trumpet blows)... ...

Vale Phil Spathis

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
Phil Spathis, the co-founder of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), has died following a lengthy illness. Spathis was a driving force behind the organisation, establishing it alongside the late Michael O'Sullivan. He was the first ...

Tax reform cannot be deferred any longer: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... that individuals with broken work patterns are able to make sufficient contributions. In other tax news the Insurance Council of Australia welcomed the ACT government's commitment to reduce "unfair taxes on insurance policies" by dropping insurance stamp ...

Treasury examining ASX monopoly

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... that could benefit high-frequency traders but exchange operators like Chi-X argue that it's stifling innovation. "The Council of Financial Regulators will shortly provide the Government with its recommendations on competition in equities clearing... ...

Fight profit shifting, ACTU tells industry funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... yesterday. Emma Maiden, deputy assistant secretary of Unions NSW, told an estimated 800 union delegates at the Australian Council of Trade Unions annual conference in Melbourne that super funds should weigh into the issue of multi-national profit shifting ...