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APRA could oversee stalled super fund mergers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... Royal Commission has suggested APRA's proposed new powers could be used to address stalled super fund mergers. The Parliament is currently waiting to pass a number of changes to the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act (SIS Act), including giving ...

Royal Commission sobering and overdue: Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... He believes if the current government were competent, they would get straight to task on submitting legislation to parliament that would have bipartisan support. "This is the Royal Commission Scott Morrison did not want you to see. This is the report ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... deceleration accelerated starting in the June quarter of 2018 after the March 4 elections - which resulted in a hung parliament - heightened political uncertainty that was followed soon after by Rome and Belgium's stoush over the new Italian government's ...

Will the PC recommendations fall through the cracks?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... Senate not being controlled by the government looming like a challenge for whichever party forms government in the 46th Parliament," he said. While some of the recommendations may be possible to legislate by way of delegated authority via APRA, the ATO ...

Kelly O'Dwyer to leave parliament

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... entitled to expect." "There have been too many by-elections of late, and I have no intention of causing one in the next Parliament." O'Dwyer - who currently holds the Jobs and Industrial Relations portfolios in addition to her role as Minister for Women ...

CCIV consultation opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... which include Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Thailand without too much red tape. In June 2018, both houses of Federal Parliament passed the Asia Region Funds Passport bill. The bill amends the Corporations Act 2001 to implement the passport.

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
It's ironic that for a country known as the United Kingdom, there seems to be an absence of well, unity. The (dis)United Kingdom's Prime Minister Theresa May and her proposed Brexit deal lost big time in the House of Commons by a record 230 ...

Productivity Commission report puts banks first: ACTU

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... insurance and other products through super they would support the ALP amendments to the My Super bill currently before the parliament."

The problem the Productivity Commission is trying to fix

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... the report's premises will no doubt face challenge if and when legislators try to respond to the report in the parliament. But anyone, especially anyone in one of the 23 industry and professional associations servicing the superannuation and financial ...

ASFA, ISA, FSC weigh in on the final report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... continues to lobby against sensible consumer protections, such as the Protecting Your Super Package currently before parliament, which would address these problems." Federal Treasurer Stuart Robert said there are significant issues that need to be addressed. ...