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Govt responds to self-funded retirees

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Self-funded retirees may not be left out in the cold in the new carbon tax scheme after all, with Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten announcing more package highlights to Tasmanian retirees. Yesterday self-funded retirees expressed concern of being ignored ...

Govt $41m finance centre launches new projects

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... International Finance and Regulation, with funding allocations to research projects including High Frequency Trading. Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, and Deputy Premier of NSW and Minister for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... 0719 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was up 32 points at 4,617. In economics news on Friday, the assistant governor (financial markets) of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Guy Debelle, delivers an address in Adelaide to the ...

Govt closes in on phoenix super dodgers

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... making directors personally liable, after releasing draft legislation and calling for submissions from the industry. Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten said yesterday that the government will strengthen obligations of companies and directors to prohibit ...

Westpac goes on attack against lost super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... the separate administration charges could amount to $48,000 in wasted fees by the time someone retires. Bill Shorten, assistant treasurer and minister for superannuation, said the Gillard Government welcomed the Westpac initiative because with a mobile ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... price index futures contract was up 49 points at 4,491. In economic news on Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle addresses the Systemic Risk, Basel III, Financial Stability and Regulation Conference. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... index was up 3.6 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 4,565 points. In economic news this week, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Assistant Governor Guy Debelle will speak about systemic risk and Basel III at the Financial Stability and Regulation Conference in ...

Tax agreement between Aus and Liechtenstein

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... the domestic and global financial systems and helping prevent offshore tax avoidance and evasion," said Bill Shorten, Assistant Treasurer. The two nations said they would continue to explore potential measures to build an economic and trading relationship. ...

Super heavyweights join forces

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... Self-managed Super Fund Association of Australia (SPAA) and the Financial Services Council (FSC) have submitted a proposal to assistant treasurer Bill Shorten to cut the planned threshold, calling the threshold too complex. Instead the associations are ...

Pollies clash over SG

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
Politicians are exchanging words over the move to raise superannuation guarantee (SG) from 9 to 12 per cent with assistant treasurer Bill Shorten calling the Coalition's attitude towards superannuation "belligerent". Speaking at a union's investment ...