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SG frozen till 2021, industry 'dismayed'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... reforms contained in the Minerals Resource Rent Tax Repeal and Other Measures Bill 2014. In a joint statement, Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said the measure would save the budget around $50 billion over the next decade. Hockey ...

Bowen supports lump sum status quo

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... lambast the current government's polices on superannuation, the age pension and financial advice. He said Treasurer Joe Hockey had "failed to explain" why Australians "can be reasonably expected to work to 70," saying no developed country in the world ...

FEATURE: Guiding the way to aged care

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... to become more important. "The policies must be changed, either now or more dramatically in the future," Treasurer Joe Hockey said in April. Today, aged care is the eight largest part of government expenditure. "To put it in the simplest terms, we are ...

Senate saves the LISC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... accounts of working mums, many of whom are already behind on saving for retirement." However, in a joint release Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said the move was unsustainable, claiming the three measures would cost $8.5 billion ...

Governments are 'out of money': Hockey

AAP, PETER TRUTE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey says governments are out of money and can only fund vital infrastructure with funds from the private sector. Hockey told the B20 summit of business leaders in Sydney that infrastructure is a key part of meeting a two per cent increase ...

CBA reaction too slow, too little, too late

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... stakeholders for being too slow, too little and too late. Speaking at a Melbourne Institute event yesterday, Treasurer Joe Hockey said: "Clearly the Commonwealth Bank was just too slow to get to this point." Hockey, whose mother-in-law was one of the ...

CBA needs to"lift its game": Treasurer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey said Commonwealth Bank (CBA) needs to "lift its game" and added that the bank has handled the scandals within its financial planning businesses and the Senate investigation "appallingly." Hockey spoke this weekend at the Liberal ...

FEATURE: Gear up for retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... advisers and product providers can join forces to come up with the best strategies to meet retirees needs. Treasurer Joe Hockey's 2014-15 budget speech in May sent the wheels of the financial services industry speed up. The rise of the Age Pension eligibility ...

Super advocates urge caution on age access

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... federal government not to rush any changes to the age at which people can access their retirement savings. Treasurer Joe Hockey has hinted the government could change the age at which people could access their super, but Prime Minister Tony Abbott quickly ...

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 ...