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Hagger to depart NAB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... Baird in leading the corporate and institutional banking division is group chief risk officer, David Gall. Current group treasurer Shaun Dooley has been appointed to replace Gall in the lead risk role. "We have a clear plan to transform NAB and create ...

Instant asset write off extended

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... approval guarantees small business' accessibility to the scheme for another 12 months to 30 June 2019. According to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Small Business Minister Michaelia Cash, around 3.3 million small businesses can access the asset write-off ...

Chief economist update: Confidence down, conditions up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... drama, Julius Caesar, that saw Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull politically assassinated (and replaced with the Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison) in the dying days of August may have played a part in the drop in the recent drop in business confidence. ...

Super industry welcomes Age Pension backflip

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
... plans to increase the pension age to 70 by 2035. The plans were first announced in the 2014-15 Federal budget by then-Treasurer Joe Hockey. "We are pleased that the Morrison government has abandoned Coalition plans to increase the pension age," Linden ...

Federal oversight of financial services sector clarified

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... Party leadership spill saw the dedicated financial services portfolio dropped by new Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has now confirmed that responsibility for the sector will be split between himself and Assistant Treasurer Stuart ...

ASIC hires former super executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... executives have been nominated as members of ASIC to serve a period of five years each. Among his first duties as Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg announced Danielle Press and Sean Hughes will join the corporate regulator. Press was most recently the ...

AustralianSuper secures WestConnex stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... manages more than $140 billion of members' retirement savings. Construction of WestConnex began in March 2015, and NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet and Minister for WestConnex Stuart Ayres said: "We're months from opening brand new 6.5 kilometre ...

Morrison drops financial services portfolio

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... her title as Minister for Women. Newly-named deputy leader of the Liberal Party, Josh Frydenberg, replaces Morrison as Treasurer, with Stuart Robert returning to the frontbench to support him as Deputy Treasurer. ACT senator Zed Seselja is now Assistant ...

Australia's weekus horribilis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... challenge to sitting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's leadership of the Liberal Party and ended with the sitting Treasurer Scott Morrison emerging as the country's 30th Prime Minister. And oh, the sixth head of Australia since Julia Gillard ...

Royal Commission on social media: Regulators under scrutiny

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... August 17, 2018 Tim Mackay again used a gif, this time to voice his disapproval of grandfathered commissions. Former treasurer Wayne Swan last week said cultural change in financial services was facing inertia despite the Royal Commission.