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Government consults on laxing legacy super product rules

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... income streams in terms of valuation and payments setting, according to an explanatory statement issued by assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones. "Although market-linked income streams have similarities to account-based ...

Cbus' CFMEU board directors exit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
... the CFMEU on the Cbus board. However, there is no word yet on who'll step into the vacant positions. Shadow assistant treasurer Luke Howarth told Financial Standard that he welcomed the cleanout of the Cbus board. "The CFMEU officials on Cbus' board ...

APRA reprimands Cbus, BUSSQ over governance issues

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... by governments, regulators, and union organisations to eradicate such criminal behaviour," he added. Shadow assistant treasurer Luke Howarth told Financial Standard that it's positive to see the regulator take action to look closely at the fitness ...

ASFA pushes for tax redistribution to benefit low-income workers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... workers. "... enhancing LISTO offers a powerful widespread impact for people's retirement outcomes," she added. Assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones told Financial Standard that the government is committed to delivering ...

Industry demands action to stop abusers claiming victims' super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), Super Members Council (SMC), and Women in Super have appealed to assistant treasurer Stephen Jones and other "key ministers" to reform superannuation death benefit laws to ensure family violence perpetrators ...

New shadow assistant treasurer's vision for advice, super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Luke Howarth has reaffirmed the opposition unreservedly supports Michelle Levy's Quality of Advice Review (QAR) recommendations and wouldn't go back to the drawing board, at an event hosted by the Financial Services ...

WAM calls to save in-person AGMs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024
Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones announced this month a review to consider making temporary changes to the Corporations Act to allow hybrid and virtual-only AGMs permanently, a move which Wilson Asset Management chief executive Geoff Wilson said is ...

Government lifts funding to preserve banking in the Pacific

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... off from the global financial system. At stake here is the ability of the Pacific to engage with the world." Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones told the forum, which was organised by the Australian and US government, that between 2011 and 2022, the Pacific ...

First advice reform bill passes parliament

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... existing risk-based approach can continue, minimising additional documentation requests to advisers," she said. Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones said the legislation clarifies that Australians can use their superannuation accounts to pay for personal ...

New inspector-general of taxation appointed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
... is currently deputy secretary of the NSW Premier's Department, leading the Strategic Implementation Group. Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones said Owen's extensive experience will "strengthen the important role the Office of the Inspector-General of Taxation ...