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Industry welcomes Shorten's promotion

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... financial services and superannuation. The move also sees Sports Minister Mark Arbib assume the junior minister portfolio of Assistant Treasurer. Speaking at a press conference in Canberra yesterday, Shorten spoke of an inherent link between financial ...

Govt releases intra-fund advice rules

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has released details of the new superannuation trustee requirements around the delivery of intra-fund advice, today revealing certain advice areas excluded from the service. While intra-fund advice will cover any general ...

New RBA deputy governor named

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... Bank has seen great change and faced difficult economic and financial conditions." Since April 2009, Lowe has worked as assistant economic governor, as well as the governor and Reserve Bank board's chief economic adviser. He also held the role of head ...

Vanguard founder joins MLC board

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... appointed as a non-executive director on the MLC board. "Jeremy is an industry veteran after initially starting out as an assistant economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in the USA back in 1979," said MLC chair Geoff Tomlinson "Since then ...

Insto tax phase down deferred one year

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has announced a one year deferral of its phase down of interest withholding tax, paid primarily by financial institutions as announced in the 2010-11 Budget, thanks to the MRRT. As promised in last year's Budget, the ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... share price index futures contract was down 24 points at 4,128. In economic news on Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (Financial Markets) Guy Debelle is to deliver a speech to the APRA Basel III Implementation Workshop 2011 and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... price index futures contract was UP one points at 4,182. In economic news on Monday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is to deliver a speach to the Australian Securitisation Forum Conference. In equities ...

Shorten rallies the troop to vote in favour of SG hike

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... "negotiate and compromise" on reform, despite their traditional differences. In an impassioned speech to ASFA delegates, the assistant treasurer said Australians had much to be optimistic about, not least the country's comparatively low national debt ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases labour force data for October. Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (economic) Philip Lowe delivers a speech to the Australian Farm Institute Agriculture Roundtable Conference in ...

AllianceBernstein adds Aust manager to Asia Pacific team

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... expansion in the region," said Hayden Briscoe, AllianceBernstein's director-Asia Pacific fixed income. "Together with an assistant portfolio manager to be added shortly, they will take to 18 the number of fixed-income team members strategically located ...