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Financial markets give the budget a big yawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... built on forecasts - also known as guesses - about the future. You, I and Irene already know what happened to Treasurer Wayne Swan's guessed and "promised" A$1.5 billion underlying cash balance (0.1% of GDP) surplus for 2012/13. It amazingly turned into ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... the growth limiting impact of the increased taxation and spending restraint/cuts that Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan would deliver at tomorrow's Budget night. The 64 million dollar question is whether or not the A$ would be able to stay down ...

Exchange-traded government bonds to trade on ASX

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... to diversify their funding sources and offer opportunities for retail investor participation," Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan and Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten said in a statement. The Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) ...

RBA to raise rates in Wayne's world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... rate. This is, of course, if you follow Australian Federal Treasurer and 2011's Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year, Wayne Swan, that budget surpluses provide the RBA "maximum flexibility to cut interest rates." Swannie even took credit for the RBA's ...

Global cooling on carbon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... Council of Australia and the Australian Industry Group - clamouring, "I'll have what she's having". That's tough for Wayne Swan who'll be presenting the Budget to us Australians all in less than a month's time. The last Budget predicts a carbon price ...

Super council won't prevent Labor tax raids

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... would not bring an end to future tinkering. Details about the independent body are yet to be disclosed, but Treasurer Wayne Swan said that it will be charged with safeguarding the nation's savings from policies which go against the Charter of Superannuation ...

Brogden reaffirms campaign warning to politicians

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... may return. At a press conference in Sydney on Friday, Brogden welcomed many of the changes announced by Treasurer Wayne Swan and superannuation minister Bill Shorten saying that it ended weeks of speculation. While he admitted the announcement had taken ...

Government announces key super reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
Australians with superannuation balances over $2 million dollars face losing key tax concessions, Treasurer Wayne Swan and Financial Services and Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten announced this morning. Starting July 1, 2014, all new earnings on ...

Super changes ease political and financial uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... savers and voters to focus on the future, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said. Treasurer Wayne Swan and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten announced a series of changes to superannuation, the ...

Super will improve under Labor: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... living longer and they will need to be encouraged to have adequate savings to retire comfortably." Yesterday Treasurer Wayne Swan indicated that Labor will be making changes to Australia's super system. "The government supports the super system strongly...We ...