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Housing construction lags broader economy by 49%: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
The housing construction sector is lagging Australia's productivity levels by 49% and is helping fuel the affordable housing crisis, a new report from the Productivity Commission reveals. The Housing construction productivity: Can we fix it? report ...

Senate calls to overhaul super fund boards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... so. Instead, the wide terms of reference have been ignored, for the third time, and the inquiry has prioritised partisan policy proposals." The dissenting comments also said the committee made no attempts to create a bipartisan report and made no effort ...

ART, MLC AM, HESTA name directors

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... is a director of the Regional Australia Institute. Most recently, she was appointed to the central bank's Monetary Policy Board. For her part, Thomas recently stepped down from the Brighter Super board, having been a director since 2017, She currently ...

Janus Henderson turns $5.2bn fixed interest fund into active ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... fixed interest Jay Sivapalan, who believes the asset class is well-prepared for "a new growth story" in 2025. "Government policy settings aimed at stimulating growth are likely to reignite investor interest in the asset class," Sivapalan said. "The fixed ...

Industry fund insurance bungle adds fuel to mounting outrage

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... their insurance and confirming it's since been fixed. In the letter to members, Rest explained that under its insurance policy, whenever a member loses their insurance cover, they're offered 28 days from the date of cancellation to contribute and have ...

Australians don't trust politicians with their super: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
... economy-wide, evidence-based tax review after the next election. "The government's superannuation tax breaches fundamental tax policy principles, by taxing unrealised gains, and the incidence of the tax will have the greatest impact on young Australians ...

Investment down as uncertainty rises

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... investments, should they be realised, will drive faster rates of productivity growth over time.," Underwood said. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index for Australia more than doubled from the recent low in early 2024 to the current reading in early ...

One more vote needed for $3m super tax

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... defending the Bill. "As if to prove incontrovertibly the Div 296 extra tax on super balances is about politics and not policy, Treasurer Jim Chalmers offered stymie debit and credit card surcharges by linking it to the passing of Div 296," Ali said. ...

Future Fund reaches value of $237.9bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
... billion, from $60.4 billion at 31 December 2023. "This was after accounting for $790 million in payments to support various policy initiatives including medical research, the work of the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and drought and disaster resilience." ...

The regulatory pendulum has swung too far: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
... the industry and its consumers with the "costly overhang" of poor regulation. As a result, the FSC's most urgent election policy is a call for whichever party forms government to create a "red tape razor gang" to slash inefficient regulation. The FSC ...