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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... said it had moved to ease a liquidity crisis that has gripped the country's financial markets. Traders breathed a sigh of relief after the People's Bank of China (PBoC) late on Tuesday said it had made money available to some firms in a bid to prevent ...

Labor completes super agenda with passage of four bills

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... This cap increase will be extended to the over-50s in the 2014-15 financial year. Also passed was law ensuring income tax relief for superannuation funds without MySuper licences when they transfer default accounts to another super fund. The most complicated ...

Coalition pledges support for super laws amendments bill

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
The Coalition has said it will support the federal government's Superannuation Laws Amendment Bill, granting tax relief to superannuation funds which do not acquire a MySuper licence. Under MySuper regulations, funds which do not offer a MySuper product ...

ASIC continues proceedings against Wellington Capital

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... Capital distribution of PIF shares to Asset Resolution Limited (ARL) was invalid and has scheduled a hearing on interlocutory relief on June 12, 2013. ASIC started legal proceedings in September 2012 after Wellington announced that ARL had acquired $90.75 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... Stocks were also boosted by greater confidence that the Federal Reserve won't immediately end its bond-buying program and relief that Japan's stock market rose Tuesday. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets rebounded to close markedly higher, boosted ...

ASIC to accept submissions for 'hedge fund' definition

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... of these characteristics can be considered a hedge fund. ASIC has also extended until February 1, 2014, the transitional relief to hedge fund issuers that had previously issued a shorter product disclosure statement (PDS) on or before 22 June 2012. Last ...

Coalition will delay SG rise, abolish LICS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... dismiss parts of Abbott's Budget Reply. Amelia Christie, CPSA senior policy advisor, said, "Pensioners breathe a sigh of relief as Tony Abbott announces that should the Coalition come into power, pensioners will be able to hang onto their carbon tax ...

Budget gets nod of approval from industry bodies

JAMES FERNYHOUGH, MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... winners than losers," he said. Deloitte superannuation tax partner John Randall said the industry would breathe a sigh of relief in light of the Prime Minister's recent comments that 'everything was back on the table.' "Despite the changes announced ...

Exchange-traded government bonds to trade on ASX

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... Commonwealth Bank of Australia, J.P. Morgan Australia, and UBS AG, Australia Branch,They have been given short selling relief by the Australian Securities and Investment Council (ASIC). "Through enabling the further development of the AGB market, retail ...

A long two-month wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013