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Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... reasoned that it was due to the global savings glut and increasing globalisation. In testimony before the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on February 17, 2005, Alan Greenspan remarked that: "Long-term interest rates have trended ...

Unpaid super reaches $6bn

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... further address unpaid superannuation, a figure estimated to be about $5.9 billion as at 2015-16. Speaking to a Senate committee hearing in Canberra on Friday, ISA public affairs director Matt Linden said the group estimates about three million workers ...

Members better off with equal representation: AIST

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... mandatory for member funds from 1 July 2018. Separately, SMSF Association chief John Maroney recently told a Senate Committee employees have the fundamental right to choose their own super fund - SMSF members are not the only ones affected by lack of ...

FoFA should also protect retail banking customers: FSU

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... sales-based incentives, according to the employee, this is yet to take effect at the branch level. Also addressing the Senate committee was Kilian Colin, a former personal banker at Wells Fargo for three years until June 2016. He stated there were "unreasonable ...

Broaden levy to foreign banks: Big four

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... reached, they said. Conversely, the Customer Owned Banking Association chief executive Mark Degotardi told the Senate committee the levy was a "modest step" towards reducing the unfair funding cost enjoyed by the major banks. The perception that the ...

ATO blamed for SG non-payment

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2017
... approach to policing superannuation guarantee payments has exacerbated the growing problem of non-compliance, a Senate committee report found. The ATO's reactive rather than proactive practices significantly contributed to the fiscal impact of SG non-payment ...

SG non-payment is an 'easy fix': ISA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... single touch payroll coverage to all employees or tighten enforcement and penalty regimes, he said. "Both the senate committee and an inter-agency group established by the Financial Services Minister have been working on this for five months. The ducks ...

Senate committee files views on super objective

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
Merits behind the Superannuation (Objective) Bill may soon be debated in the Senate, following a Senate Economics Legislation Committee report filed on Tuesday. Committee chair, Senator Jane Hume, told Financial Standard that after considering all positions ...

Super 2.0 must deliver retirement certainty: FSC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... fair. Speaking to the objectives of super, Gallagher said the government has agreed to refer the matter to a Senate committee enquiry in the hopes of achieving greater consensus across the board. "We should attempt to reach broad political consensus ...

Super trustee bill before the Senate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... five directors from bank owned funds are finance industry insiders," ISA chief executive David Whitely told the Senate committee last month.