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Super gets an insider in ministry reshuffle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... AustralianSuper will take responsibility for the superannuation sector, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled a reshuffled ministry. Jane Hume, a former senior policy adviser at Australia's largest super fund, will assume responsibility for ...

Chief economist update: It'll hurt me more than it hurts you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... the paperwork to slap a 25% tariff on all remaining imports from China worth around US$325 billion. As expected, the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China announced (before the opening bell on Wall Street on Monday, the May 13) that ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... and his dog expected as much - but that the financial markets reacted more to Beijing's tit for his tariff tat. The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China announced (before the opening bell on Wall Street) that it's imposing ...

Macquarie names digital infra head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
... Bradley recently held senior roles in the UK Government, with a stint as a commercial specialist in the UK's finance ministry, HM Treasury. Prior to rejoining Macquarie, Bradley was the corporate finance director of UK alternative digital infrastructure ...

Assistant Treasurer refutes breach allegations

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... company Cryo Australia until this week, despite informing the Parliament he had quit the board upon returning to the ministry. When asked whether ASIC would make any inquiries into the matter, Day said the corporate regulator would not. "What does it ...

Chief economist update: If you can't beat Trump, copy Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... It appears that the Chinese government has now borrowed a leaf from its adversary in the form of tax cuts. China's Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation has just published the personal income tax deduction plan (the final version ...

Instant asset write off extended

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... business activity statement. The Government recently clarified the responsibilities of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's new ministry, confirming several changes for financial services, after Kelly O'Dwyer took on the jobs, industrial relations and women ...

Morrison drops financial services portfolio

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... services portfolio has been scrapped by Australia's latest Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. Announcing a new-look ministry following the Liberal Party's leadership spill last week, the standalone financial services portfolio held by Kelly O'Dwyer ...

Chief economist update: Synchronised global slowing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... continue threatening to derail the synchronised growth upswing. This has recently become more real with a China Commerce Ministry spokesman quoted as saying: "China will take equivalent measures on US goods at the same level and scale" in anticipation ...

Chief economist update: Trump spoils for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... officially respond but only two weeks ago, Wang Hejun - chief of the trade remedy and investigation bureau at China's Ministry of Commerce - warned that "if the final decision [on steel and aluminium tariffs] impacts China's interests, China will certainly ...