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Mike Baird to chair government fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... Government is a shareholder in the fund, alongside ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank, the NAB, Westpac, HSBC and Macquarie. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced the appointment after the inaugural chair of the fund, Will Hodgman, announced he would be stepping ...

AFA rejigs board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... plan that is well positioned to meet the current challenging COVID-19 economic conditions," he said. Board member and treasurer Sam Perera has taken on the role of vice president while Tasmanian state director Matthew Hawkins has stepped into the role ...

ASIC's Chester spills Crennan truth

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... 2020. But Liberal Senator James Peterson said it struck him as a very unusual thing that the ANAO needed to write to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg for the issue to be dealt with. "So it appears that ANAO in fact had identified this issue of Mr Crennan's ...

ASFA proposes MySuper test

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... MySuper authorisation should be retained. If it is unsuccessful, the MySuper authorisation will be revoked. Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg unveiled the government's version of testing underperformance as part of the Your Future, Your Super reforms ...

Daniel Crennan resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... decided that it is in the best interests of ASIC for me to resign now. I have therefore tendered my resignation to the Treasurer with immediate effect," Crennan said. "In order to ensure that ASIC's important work is not disrupted, I will remain ...

ASIC chair steps aside pending pay review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD, ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... taxation-related expenses paid by the regulator following his relocation in 2018. According to a letter sent to the Treasurer from the Auditor-General, prior to Shipton joining ASIC, the regulator approved an engagement letter from KPMG to provide taxation ...

Tax Practitioners Board adds members

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar has announced the appointments of three part-time members of the Tax Practitioners Board for a three-year period. Peter de Cure, Judy Sullivan and Craig Stephens have joined the board. de Cure was first appointed to ...

Stapling equals accountability: Hume

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
Senator Jane Hume said the newly-proposed stapling initiatives will force superannuation funds to take better accountability and create a new level of engagement with members. The Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial ...

Release the Retirement Income Review: Labor

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... their superannuation when a 30 year old will be $95,000 worse off at retirement," Jones said. "The Prime Minister and Treasurer are keen to promote unlikely allies - large charities and a few left-leaning economists - in its ideological campaign to cut ...

Women focus in Labor budget reply

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... childcare, aged care and social housing when delivering his budget reply speech. Delivering his response, Albanese said Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's budget has left Australians behind. "Our economy was already struggling coming into the crisis. Slow growth ...