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Suggestions we don't support 12% CSG lies: Hockey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey has been forced to clarify the Coalition's stance on the increase in compulsory superannuation contributions from 9% to 12% for the second time in a week. The Government pounced on a note in the parliamentary ...

Hyperion AM most-improved for 2012: Mercer

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
Hyperion Asset Management has shot up the ranking table of Australian equities managers, posting the biggest improvement in a recent Mercer investment survey. In a year where low-risk, high-yielding shares were favored, Brisbane-based Hyperion rose ...

Another Commonwealth Financial Planning adviser banned

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... against other former CFPL financial advisers, Don Nguyen, Simon Langton, Christopher Baker, Anthony Awkar, Jane Duncan and Joe Chan. On 25 October 2011, ASIC accepted an enforceable undertaking from CFPL requiring them to review their risk management ...

New CIO for Vanguard Asia-Pac

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... Vanguard, will relocate to Vanguard's Australian head office in Melbourne where he will take over the regional CIO role from Joe Brennan, who's returning to a senior role at Vanguard's Pennsylvania headquarters. Davis will lead Vanguard Australia's experienced ...

Shorten defends low-income super contribution

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... one in three workers will pay up to $500 a year more in tax because of the Coalition's plans." Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey said earlier this week that the Coalition was not planning any changes "of any dramatic nature" to superannuation ...

Cash in on overseas asset offload

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... shift in the ownership of real assets around the world, said J.P. Morgan Asset Management's head of Global Real Assets Group, Joe Azelby. Global banks have two choices, either raise more tier one capital to meet the Basel requirements, or shed their ...

Swan talks up bank reforms for competition

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... review of the sector designed to focus on increasing competition, should it win the next election. Last week shadow treasurer Joe Hockey reaffirmed the position, saying it would be extended to the $1.8 trillion funds management sector and include superannuation. ...

Super to eclipse banks as primary lender: Cooper

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... whether Australia has the regulatory infrastructure needed to make it work successfully. Earlier this week Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey promised a coalition government would investigate the infrastructural risks associated with any future role played ...

Macquarie Private expands adviser team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
Macquarie Private Wealth has appointed 13 new advisers across six state offices in a drive to expand the national team, drawing strongly on the three-year-old Morgan Stanley Smith Barney network. The Queensland team has received the most significant ...

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
"Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue." - Billy Joel, Honesty "There won't be a GST under the government I lead" promised Johnny Howard before being elected prime minister of Australia. "There won't be a carbon tax in a government I ...