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New Treasurer Bowen takes control of financial services and super

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... his responsibilities as treasurer. Previously a separate portfolio with a separate minister (Shorten), Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has now put financial services and superannuation directly under the control of Treasury. Bowen will bring relevant experience ...

Shorten loses superannuation portfolio

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... workplace relations portfolio but is no longer Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, following Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's announcement of his new cabinet. He has been given responsibility for school education following his last minute ...

FSC lobbies Rudd for last minute FoFA delay

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
The Financial Services Council (FSC) has asked new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a last-minute delay to the commencement of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) and StrongerSuper reforms. Due to begin on July 1, the FSC has lobbied for a 12-month delay ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... might have subsided, with strong gains posted on Wednesday. Rivkin global analyst Tim Radford said he did not think Kevin Rudd's mere return as Australian Prime Minister would affect markets on Thursday, but his communication on policy might. "The market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... US Commerce Department slashed its estimate for first-quarter growth from 2.4 per cent to 1.8 per cent and, locally, Kevin Rudd won back the Labor leadership from Prime Minister Julie Gillard in a caucus vote on Wednesday night. In economic news on Thursday ...

Next government to reconsider super taxes: Grattan Inst

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
Bringing the commonwealth budget into structural surplus will require the next government to be very different to the Rudd-Gillard and Howard governments, and this will inevitably force a review of superannuation taxes, argued the Grattan Institute ...

LGBT wealth management market worth $3trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... specialising in the area. The campaign to legalise gay marriage in Australia has received the support of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after he said that a secular state should be able to recognise same sex marriage. A change from his previous view. ...

Coalition wants fund governance changes: Fletcher

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... would implement superannuation governance reforms recommended by the Cooper Review, which he said "have been ignored by the Rudd-Gillard Government." These would include making directors who want to sit on more than one superannuation board prove to ...

Find super savings in public sector: Sherry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
Former Rudd-government minister for superannuation Nick Sherry has advocated scrapping remaining defined benefit schemes for public servants and finding necessary savings by reducing public sector contributions instead of making cuts to broader super ...

Ernst & Young appoints Nick Sherry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
Former Rudd-government Minister for Superannuation and former senator Nick Sherry will join Ernst & Young's superannuation practice in the capacity of senior advisor. Working with Ernst & Young's national superannuation leader Maree Pallisco, Sherry ...