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Fees secondary to return: Qantas Super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... of "below 1 per cent" industry-wide fees, long advocated by the former super minister Nick Sherry (now the Assistant Treasurer). For example, a stand alone corporate trust charges 0.71 per cent overall, charging members 0.24 per cent on admin fees and ...

BNY Mellon opens for insto banking

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... run for their money after its local arm officially opens for insto banking this month. Senator Nick Sherry, Assistant Treasurer, was at the Sydney launch of the group's new service last night. He said that the local industry will benefit from stronger ...

More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... of "below 1 per cent" industry-wide fees, long advocated by the former super minister Nick Sherry (now the Assistant Treasurer). For example, a stand alone corporate trust charges 0.71 per cent overall, charging members 0.24 per cent on admin fees and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... Group, and Gunns Ltd. OZ Minerals Ltd, PetSec Ltd, GPT Group and Roc Oil Co Ltd deliver first half results. Assistant Treasurer Nick Sherry will address a Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) symposium on The Impact of The National Consumer ...

Superannuation wins in Cabinet reshuffle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... represents a meteoric rise, again highlighting the importance of the new combined ministry. Senator Sherry becomes Assistant Treasurer and remains in the outer ministry where he is expected to be responsible for taxation, government revenue and competition ...

Fin services escapes consumer law reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... consumer laws, the financial services sector will continue to be exempt from progressive consumer protections. Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs will today launch new regulations to integrate State-based consumer ...

Dinosaur fund taxes should be scrapped: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
Australia's managed funds industry may soon undergo a major tax revamp as Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen calls for the Board of Taxation to review taxation arrangements applying to the sector. Minister Bowen told an Investment and Financial Services ...

Instalment warrants spice up property portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... ex-federal government's changes to the regulations surrounding SMSFs and their access to the warrants. Former Assistant Treasurer Petter Dutton reversed the then-federal government's hardline stance on instalment warrants in May last year, and SMSFs ...

Govt exempts terminally ill from super lump sum tax

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
... the stresses as possible for people in this terrible situation," said Peter Dutton, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer. At present, those under 55 years of age are taxed 20 per cent when they access a lump sum benefit from a taxed superannuation ...

Battle lines drawn over defence force super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2007
... Government's Better Super reforms of unfairly penalising Australia's military personnel through higher taxation. But Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton dismissed the claim and told the ALP to stop scaremongering over military super. "The latest 'stunt ...