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OPINION: What to do with the Tax White Paper!

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015
... time for public conversation and reflection before the final reform proposals are issued in 2016. The Green Paper should focus on the key challenges we face and offer some serious options for change. The key challenges include demographic change, fiscal ...

FSI retirement response receives support

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... superannuation it will be important for all interests - from the political to the industry - to put aside self-interest and focus on the key outcome of ensuring better retirement income outcomes for individual Australians," O'Neill said. "It will require ...

Mercer rates Aussie super B+

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... discussed in the Financial System Inquiry is the Comprehensive Income Product for Retirement [CIPR]. If we have a stronger focus on income streams, whatever that might look like - because at the moment we don't have an income focus in the system - I ...

Fingerprint offered as bank password alternative

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... mobile has grown by 90% while online has remained steady. As this appetite for mobile banking grows we will continue to focus on ensuring our customers' mobile experience is as simple, straightforward and convenient as possible." The biometric technology ...

ETFs just 5pct of all indexing

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
Despite intense focus on indexed exchange traded funds (ETF), indexed FUM is still 95% sourced from traditional non-ETF indexed mandates and managed funds. Rainmaker has just released its annual state of play wrap of the indexed FUM market and found ...

ASIC to be handed greater powers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... services laws. Consultation has also commenced on an industry-pays funding model. The government said it will strengthen the focus on competition in the financial system by explicitly including consideration of competition in ASIC's mandate and tasking ...

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
The Future Fund has issued a warning to investors that the high returns of the past few years are unlikely to continue in the medium term. The latest update shows the Future Fund's investment strategy has almost doubled the value of original government ...

Australian Ethical joins animal welfare initiative

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Australian Ethical has joined other institutional investors as part of the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare to encourage global food companies to meet a certain standard. The benchmark conducts an annual report ranking global food companies ...

Mandate tide turns towards global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... investors that have been with us for around 10 years or even more." He added that this reflects superannuation funds' increasing focus on long term objectives, but also awareness that appointing new managers can be costly. "Super funds are getting a ...

Government using super as "petri dish": Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
Labor's Jim Chalmers said the federal government sees superannuation as "some kind of petri dish for one ideological experiment after another" during a debate in federal parliament yesterday. The superannuation trustee governance bill won't be debated ...