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Future Fund staff bonuses stun public sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... executive employee albeit who that was has not been disclosed due to Public Service Commission privacy provisions. Former department head and chief of staff to former Prime Minister Paul Keating, long-time critic of public sector performance bonuses ...

APRA announces draft 2014-15 supervisory levies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) activities, $7 million for Tax Office activities and $5 million for Department of Human Services activities which look after early release of superannuation benefit applications. As a result of these ...

Invest in UK infrastructure, super funds urged

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
The British government is targeting Australian superannuation funds as potential investors in a raft of new infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom. According to Justine Allan, head of institutional investor relations for government body, UK Trade ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... Wall Street on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 63.19 points to 16,606.27 points after the US Commerce Department reported that sales of new homes rose 6.4 per cent in April.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... Weakness in the Russell 2000 has contributed to the broader market's malaise over the last month or so. The US Labor Department reported initial jobless claims, a measure of the pace of layoffs, totalled 326,000 in the week ending May 17, a gain of 28,000 ...

States urged to recycle infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... sold. However, in his recent budget speech, Nahan flagged the potential sale of a number of assets, including Health Department sites at Princess Margaret Hospital, Royal Perth Hospital and Swan Districts Hospital. He also singled out Kwinana Bulk Terminal ...

Cuts to ASIC and ATO push industry to self-regulation

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Budget cuts to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will force the industry to rely more on self-regulation. The budget is contemplating cuts of $142.8 million over the next three years ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... federal government brings down the budget at 1930 AEST. Meanwhile, Reserve Bank of Australia head of financial stability department Luci Ellis delivers a speech to the Thomson Reuters' 2nd Australian Regulatory Summit, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Family office model attractive to feuding families

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
Balancing the diverse needs and desires of various family members can be made significantly more difficult when large amounts of wealth are involved, research from Deloitte shows. The report, 2014 Private Wealth Outlook Championing Growth, found that ...

Higher pension age to drive increase in early super releases

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... arbitraging their entitlements. Early release of superannuation before the preservation age has been handled by the Department of Human Services since 2011. According to their own figures, only 18,000 people last financial year applied for early release ...