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Extra year for tax related overhauls

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... Investment Trusts (MITs) and financial planners providing tax advice to come to terms with new legislation. Bill Shorten, assistant treasurer and minister for financial services and superannuation, said that delaying the start date for the new MIT tax ...

Super conference ends on a high

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... AllianceBernstein, HESTA and the AIST, plus the managing director of Franklin Templeton Investments Australia, and the assistant secretary of the ACTU. Hosted by Tony Jones of the ABC's Lateline program, discussion was lively with MySuper likened at ...

SG needed to save retirees: Shorten

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... Thousands of 100-year-old baby boomers will live out their last days in poverty unless superannuation changes are passed, Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has told delegates at the Conference of Major Super Funds. Minister Shorten, who flew to the Gold ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... four points at 4758 points, on volume of 4,652 contracts. In economics news on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor (financial) Malcolm Edey is due to deliver a speech to the Cards and Payments Australasia 2011 Conference. The ...

Record NSW election loss could slow federal reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... against the Whitlam government in 1975 was a mediocre 6 per cent. While federal Labor strategists, including former assistant treasurer Chris Bowen, are saying the swing was due to local NSW state issues, the problem for the Gillard government is that ...

Govt claims MRRT as super victory

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... to mining tax changes has helped ensure the raising of the superannuation guarantee from 9 per cent to 12 per cent. Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten said in a media release that Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) revenues would go towards building superannuation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was scheduled to publish its half-annual Financial Stability Review. RBA assistant governor (financial system) Malcolm Edey is scheduled to speak at the Basel III Conference in Sydney. And the Australian ...

Future Fund chair back for a year, two new board members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... term or looked for someone else. Wayne Swan's office did not comment other than to refer to the press release. Shadow Assistant Treasurer Senator Mathias Cormann weighed in saying the Government decision was the worst of both worlds. "It's indecisive. ...

Super on table for October tax review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... confidence, needs stability and needs to have a taxation program in place that doesn't change every year or every other year." Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten's office said it believes most of the legislation prompted by the Cooper Review would be passed ...

ASIC and govt launch MoneySmart.gov.au

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... impartial and really useful financial guidance," said Prime Minister Julia Gillard through videolink at the launch. Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten said the website would complement the Stronger Super package, to strengthen the superannuation system ...