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Swan talks up bank reforms for competition

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... extended to the $1.8 trillion funds management sector and include superannuation. The Wallis Inquiry, ordered by Peter Costello in 1996, was a wholesale review of the industry that resulted in the creation of the Australian Prudential Regulation Auth ...

Can't fix what's not broken, yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... are accused of setting monetary policy for only one sector of society. This vaguely reminds me of then Treasurer Peter Costello's accusation that the RBA was setting policy for capuchino-sipping, wine-drinking, yacht-sailing Sydney - or something like ...

Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... jobs! You want more? Here's another from the ABC archive dated 13 May 2004 reporting that then 'Federal Treasurer Peter Costello says the unemployment rate is below 6 per cent for the eighth month in a row due to the Government's management of the economy.' ...

Costello lands MD role at advisory firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
Future Fund board member and former Treasurer, Peter Costello, has been appointed managing director of independent financial and corporate advisory services firm, BKK Partners. Alastair Walton, chair at BKK Partners, said he has known Costello for more ...

Costello joins Future Fund board

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Former Treasurer Peter Costello has been appointed to the $64 billion Future Fund's Board of Guardians. Costello is expected to take up his post on 18 December, after officially quitting politics last month. He served as Treasurer from 1996 to 2007 ...

Too many choices, too many fees: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... excluding SMSFs, offer consumers more than 70,000 investment options. Evans comments follow calls by former Treasurer Peter Costello that the government should stop tampering with the superannuation system. However, it was the Better Super tax reforms ...

Of population growth and surpluses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... happened to forecasts of surpluses in Australia as far as the eye can see. Back in the early 2000's, then Treaurer Peter Costello was even contemplating closing down the bond market -- it has reached its 'use by' date as Australia won't be going into ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... current levels. We re-elected Johnny Howard - remember him? -- in 2004 when the jobless rate was at 5.6 per cent. Peter Costello - remember him? you should, he might make a comeback - also gloated back in 2004 about the government's good economic management ...

The perfect hedge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2009
... Australia. So much so that the likelihood that Australia will experience a "technical" recession is as much as Peter Costello becoming Premier - it could still happen but not this time, thank you. And in the US, Japan, Europe and the UK. Same old, same ...

Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
Short-lived speculation that former Liberal Party Treasurer Peter Costello was about to be appointed by the Labor government to a leading position in running the Future Fund shows the fund is still poorly understood, three years after its launch. Rumours ...