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YFYS incentive to reduce fees: Hume

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... to include administration fees followed widespread industry consultation to strengthen the performance test. She said Treasury analysis of last year's APRA data estimated that there are around 21 products that were considered underperforming by more ...

Personal, business tax cuts revealed

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... will support the recovery and build on tax cuts we announced in last year's budget and the budgets before that." Treasury estimates that extending the LMITO will boost GDP by around $4.5 billion in 2022/23 and will create an additional 20,000 jobs ...

Australia is coming back: Frydenberg

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... time since the early 1970s. "Australia is coming back," treasurer Josh Frydenberg said. At the height of the pandemic, Treasury feared unemployment could reach as far as 15% and the economy contract by 20%. "This would have meant two million Australians ...

Key Treasury initiatives outlined

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... providers who wish to establish more permanent operations in Australia. On the flip side, the government will provide Treasury with close to $60 million over the next five years to support the delivery of its priorities. These include Treasury's engagement ...

GQG Partners adds to team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... manager - asset management. Prior to this, she was principal at BlackWatch Partners, head of client risk and compliance at Treasury Group and previously held compliance management roles at CommInsure, EY, Colonial First State and State Street. Smith ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... reported. Likewise, the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1% in April from 6.0% in the previous month. Fortunately for US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, she was quick to walk back her talk at the "Future Economic Summit" suggesting that interest rates ...

TCorp hires CBA capital markets executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
The New South Wales Treasury Corporation has appointed a long-serving Commonwealth Bank executive to the role of head of funding and balance sheet. Rob Kenna leads the team primarily responsible for raising debt in the form of bonds and managing the ...

Proxy advisers under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... by requiring proxy advisers to be meaningfully independent from super funds and advise only on an arm's length basis. Treasury opened consultation on greater transparency for proxy advice reforms on 30 April 2021. The consultation paper says the use ...

Deborah Ralston to advise Allianz Retire+

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... Deborah Ralston, Nicolette Rubinsztein, Sally Evans and Fintan Thornton. Ralston was one of the three panel members on Treasury-commissioned Retirement Income Review. She is also the former chair of the SMSF Association. Rubinsztein is a non-executive ...

HESTA hires former Vanguard head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... has held academic positions at Monash University and the University of Melbourne and has been a portfolio manager for treasury and investments at Medibank Private. HESTA chief executive Sonya Sawtell-Rickson said Howard's appointment is part of HESTA's ...