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Super changes ease political and financial uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... battleground and it remains to be seen exactly what impact today's announcement will have on the electorate. Opposition leader Tony Abbott has said he will fight to block the latest changes. "'It is a raid on people. Every time a government raids people's ...

Pension funds reckless on climate risk: Hewson

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... picture of greenwash (sic) and reckless mismanagement but with some signs of progress," said former federal opposition leader and AOPD chairman Dr John Hewson. "With around $60 trillion under management the investment decisions made by these investors ...

Abbott government to index military pensions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
In a major speech on military policy to the Returned Services League national conference this morning, opposition leader Tony Abbott vowed to index military retirement pensions if elected next year. "An incoming coalition government would finally offer ...

Shorten demands clarity of stance on SG rise

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten has hit back at the opposition leader's comments on the superannuation guarantee increase, asking for a clarification of position. Last week's passage of the minerals resource rent tax legislation with changes ...

FIRST Super invites Tony Abbott to board meeting

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
Industry fund FIRST Super has extended an olive branch to Tony Abbott, inviting the Opposition leader to their next board meeting. The invite comes in the wake of Abbott's scathing criticism last week of the way industry super fund boards are run. According ...

Unions, AIST hit back at Abbott comments

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
Unions and super associations have responded to comments from Opposition leader Tony Abbott who blasted union involvement in industry super funds. According to The Australian, Tony Abbott reportedly called industry super funds gravy trains for union ...

FSC chief made chair of Landcom

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... Brogden would replace William Kirby Jones as chair of State land developer Landcom. However the former state Opposition leader told Financial Standard that his role at the helm of the Financial Services Council wouldn't be affected by the new appointment. ...

Abbott: Coalition will not vote for SG but won't rescind it

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, has made his position clear on the proposed rise in the superannuation guarantee to 12%. Abbott confirmed this morning at a Financial Services Council (FSC) breakfast in Sydney, that while his party will not vote in support ...

Hero to Zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... ever, this would be disbursed at all. The New York Times reports dear George reached an agreement with Greek Opposition leader Antonis Samaras to form a Unity Government but sans Papandreou as head. Here's another "but" from the New York Times, "But ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... media is the right thing to do. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has accused NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell and federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of conspiring with News Ltd to undermine the carbon tax. BHP - BHP BILLITON LTD - up 73 cents, or two per cent ...