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Budget 2011: "Benign" Budget a relief for finance sector

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
Extended relief for compulsory pension fund draw-downs, encouragement for super funds to invest in infrastructure and a reiteration of the promise to increase the super guarantee to 12 per cent were functions of a budget that commentators labeled bland. ...

NGS Super merger too late for tax relief

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
NGS Super expects to complete a merger with UCSuper by early 2012, missing out on capital gains tax relief, having signed a memorandum of understanding to create a combined $4.4 billion fund. The optional capital gains tax (CGT) roll-over for capital ...

Super funds win merger tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Merging superannuation funds have been granted a three-month tax relief extension by Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten. Minister Shorten today said that the Government would extend the temporary tax loss relief for consolidating ...

ASFA wants action on tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia is heading to Canberra to lobby the Federal Government over capital gains tax relief, association chief Pauline Vamos told a packed Sydney luncheon yesterday. The organisation wants continued tax relief ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... fall in a poll of economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires and the Nikkei. The Japanese trade figures weighed against relief that MPs in Washington had reached an agreement late Friday to avoid a federal government shutdown in the world's biggest economy. ...

ASX eyes merger alternatives

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
... business logic of increased scale and integration with Asian markets. For many experts, the merger's collapse will come as a relief, given the level of skepticism when the deal was first agreed. Professor Peter Swan from the School of Banking and Finance ...

JMK rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... continuing improving trend in the US labour market. This isn't the only good news. Remember TARP? Yes, the Troubled Asset Relief Program that was autographed into law by President Bush Junior on 3 October 2008 to bailout America's "troubled" banks and ...

Adviser remuneration debate sparks fly

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... Whiteley Chief Executive Industry Super Network. "The debate about the adequacy of retirement savings is placed in stark relief when the effect of ongoing fees for financial advice, sales commissions, volume payments and other incentives paid to financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... fighting) were happening in one of the bigger oil-producing companies," Mr Knight said. The market had the potential to stage a relief rally once events dominating world news had stabilised and there were no "left-field events" popping up to derail activity ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, notably a potential meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant. So far, there is some relief that the worst scenarios envisioned by some have not materialised. Although Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 1.4 per cent ...