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Financial Sector Advisory Council back in action

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... Financial Sector Advisory Council has been reconstructed with new appointments and a mandate to advise the federal government on regulator performance as well as its implementation of the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). The rebuilt Council will have ...

Panel to review financial services complaints system

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
The federal government has announced its independent panel to review the financial services' external dispute resolution and complaints framework. The review will focus on the role, powers, governance, accountability and effectiveness of bodies active ...

Government acts on income streams review

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2016
Going some way to form the federal government's superannuation budget agenda last night was Treasury's release of the Retirement Income Streams Review. Based on the review's seven recommendations the government has decided to remove tax barriers to ...

Government finds $2.9 billion from super tax

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... superannuation representative groups welcomed no new super taxes in 2015, there is renewed interest in the federal government's direction for 2016-17 and beyond. Industry Super Australia has welcomed several changes, including the introduction of a $1.6 ...

Super objective paves way for taxation changes

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
The Federal Government has made several budget announcements around its reaffirmation of enshrining the objective of superannuation in law, including taxing the earnings of Transition to Retirement Income Streams. A joint statement from Treasurer Scott ...

Government allocates $920m pa for Smart Cities infrastructure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... initiatives is excellent news. International experience, notably in the UK, has shown that core aspects of the Federal Government's cities policy agenda are capable of incentivising local infrastructure planning and prioritisation to maximise national ...

Potential budget super alterations welcome

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... the LISC. On Friday a Senate report looking into economic security for women in retirement recommended the federal government retain the LISC beyond 2017, and that concessional superannuation contributions of lower income earners are not taxed at a higher ...

Associations support adviser standards amendments

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... Association of Financial Advisers and the Financial Planning Association said they were pleased to see the federal government offer revised draft legislation that includes a longer, more flexible and practical approach for existing advisers or planners ...

Findex partners to advance medical research

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. The partnership will discuss potential recommendations to the federal government's Medical Research Future Fund - a perpetual endowment fund aiming to allocate $1 billion annually for priority-driven ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
... quarter reflected a larger decrease in nonresidential fixed investment, a deceleration in PCE, a downturn in federal government spending, an upturn in imports, and larger decreases in private inventory investment and in exports that were partly offset ...