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Fight profit shifting, ACTU tells industry funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... also promote infrastructure investment, delegates at the 2015 ACTU Congress were told yesterday. Emma Maiden, deputy assistant secretary of Unions NSW, told an estimated 800 union delegates at the Australian Council of Trade Unions annual conference ...

Terminally ill granted early access to super

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... to superannuation in such cases, following consultation with Breast Cancer Network Australia and other organisations, Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said. Under the current provision for early access to superannuation, terminally ill patients must ...

Gearing for SMSFs won't be significant: Colley

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... announcement about gearing would change the investment pattern of self-managed fund trustees. "We've only just seen the assistant treasurer with something about gearing in SMSFs and what that will be I don't really know," Colley said. "It seems there ...

Frydenberg to decide on advice standards in June

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is expected to release a final document outlining the measures to improve professional standards for financial advisers at the end of June. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief operating officer Phil ...

Industry meets behind closed doors to fix advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and over 20 industry and consumer bodies met on April 29th to reach a consensus on lifting professional, ethical and education standards for financial advisers. The roundtable is the first of three and will focus ...

FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the clock is ticking for the industry to implement the recommendations in the Trowbridge report. Alex Burke investigates what that might mean for risk advice. "It is up to the industry now to restore public confidence ...

No changes to neg gearing, super in Budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Just three weeks out from the Abbott government's second budget, the Prime Minister and Assistant Treasurer have said there will be no changes to tax policy regarding negative gearing or superannuation. On speculation that the government might act to ...

Frydenberg sets fuse on Trowbridge time bomb

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has started his countdown for the risk advice industry to get its house in order before the government takes action - and the industry doesn't have long. Speaking at a BT-sponsored Financial Services Council (FSC) ...

New Super Complaints Tribunal chair named

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... continue to ensure that the Tribunal fulfils its mediation and settlement role in the important area of superannuation," Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said in a statement. Davis currently runs her own superannuation consultancy firm which she established ...

Industry, government respond to Trowbridge report

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... recommendations in John Trowbridge's Review of Retail Life Insurance Advice. The Treasury was broadly supportive, with Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg commenting that the report "makes a significant and constructive contribution to improving the ...