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Coalition Senators head-to-head over FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
The government's reforms to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) could be disallowed by Nationals' Senator John Williams after he staged a parliamentary confrontation against Finance Minister and Liberal Senator Mathias Cormann. The Senate Standing ...

Hockey accuses Labor of making "a mess" of FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has lambasted the Labor party for "complaining about its own laws" and making "such a mess of the entire crisis of financial advice." Hockey accused Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen of being "too busy in engaging with unfair dismissal ...

HESTA takes stand against thermal coal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014
Industry super fund HESTA has begun restricting its investments in thermal coal, becoming the latest fund to move towards fossil fuel divestment. Under the new policy, HESTA will not make new investments in unlisted companies that derive more than 15% ...

Bipartisan Senate inquiry to grill financial services again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Labor Senator Sam Dastyari has obtained the support from the Coalition to conduct a new Senate Economics Committee inquiry to scrutinise the financial services industry. The inquiry will continue the task of last year's Senate Economics Committee inquiry ...

Activist Simon Sheikh launches fossil fuel free super fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... part of the solution," he said, adding that some funds marketing themselves as 'ethical' or 'sustainable' still invest in coal and coal seam gas. In launching the new fund, Future Super cited research by The Australia Institute published last year, which ...

No drama at the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... for iron ore, for which supply has expanded following investment in global capacity, particularly in Australia. Declines in coal prices this year have also been accompanied by an increase in global supply from lower-cost mines." Check. "Conditions in ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

FoFA legislative changes pass in the House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
The House of Representatives has voted in favour of the government's amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. The members of Parliament voted following a long debate where the Coalition outlined its position in favour of the ...

Government tables FoFA bill in House of Reps

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
The Coalition has reintroduced the amendments of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) bill into the House of Representatives, reigniting the political debate around financial planning legislation. The government's move follows the opposition's failed ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... $15.17 after lifting its dividend The company suffered a 24 per cent slide in its first half profit due to writedowns to its coal seam gas assets in Indonesia but was able to lift its dividend thanks to an influx of cash from the massive PNG LNG project. ...