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Treasurer signals major superannuation shake up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the strongest signal yet that the government will be introducing sweeping reforms to bring superannuation into sync with age pension reforms that were announced in last week's budget. The Treasurer was speaking last night ...

Equity trustees beds down ANZ Trustees with new appointment

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
Equity Trustees has created the role of head of cash and fixed income, following the April announcement that it had agreed to acquire 100% of ANZ Trustees for $150 million. Lance Pupelis, who was most recently head of fixed income at ANZ Trustees and ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
With growth like this what's a central banker to do? It might have been too easy for the Fed to justify its steady taper as she goes despite the National Accounts showing that real GDP growth slowed to a snail dragging a very heavy object pace - 0.1% ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

SMSF flexibility makes them error prone

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
Self-managed super funds not being required to report to their members is one of the reasons these funds are vulnerable to compliance problems. Speaking at this week's Financial Services Technical Services forum, AMP SMSF Administration head of technical ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
The Australian share market is set to fall after weak earnings from US retail giant WalMart contributed to a sharp drop on Wall Street. At 0800 AEST on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was down 29 points at 5,496. In local economic ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
Anything you guys can do, I can do better... If the Fed, BOJ, ECB and PBOC could do it - forward guiding markets that monetary policy would remain easy (easier next month in the case of the ECB) - why couldn't the BOE? Yes it could! By most indications ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
The Australian market looks set to open flat following the federal budget's release, despite a positive lead from Wall street where both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 reached fresh record highs. At 0915 AEST on Wednesday, the March share price index futures ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Phew! Well that wasn't so bad after all. Yes Virginia, if you didn't fall asleep listening to Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget speech last night - mainly because most of the measures Joey mentioned were already drip-fed to us days in advanced - you'll ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

Madam Speaker, I move that the Bill for the Budget be now read a second time. Our future depends on what we as a nation do today. For our children, for our seniors, for individuals, for families, for our disabled and for our frail, for all of us, the ...