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Next government to reconsider super taxes: Grattan Inst

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
Bringing the commonwealth budget into structural surplus will require the next government to be very different to the Rudd-Gillard and Howard governments, and this will inevitably force a review of superannuation taxes, argued the Grattan Institute ...

LGBT wealth management market worth $3trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... specialising in the area. The campaign to legalise gay marriage in Australia has received the support of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after he said that a secular state should be able to recognise same sex marriage. A change from his previous view. ...

Coalition wants fund governance changes: Fletcher

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... would implement superannuation governance reforms recommended by the Cooper Review, which he said "have been ignored by the Rudd-Gillard Government." These would include making directors who want to sit on more than one superannuation board prove to ...

Find super savings in public sector: Sherry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
Former Rudd-government minister for superannuation Nick Sherry has advocated scrapping remaining defined benefit schemes for public servants and finding necessary savings by reducing public sector contributions instead of making cuts to broader super ...

Ernst & Young appoints Nick Sherry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
Former Rudd-government Minister for Superannuation and former senator Nick Sherry will join Ernst & Young's superannuation practice in the capacity of senior advisor. Working with Ernst & Young's national superannuation leader Maree Pallisco, Sherry ...

KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... but you wouldn't expect Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs (now former Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs) Kevin Rudd to speak those precise words in front of the American Press - and the world - in Washington, would you? What he said was: "I ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... maybe not that much but the point is it would have been better targeted. The proof in the pudding is then Australian PM Kevin Rudd's A$900 handout to every Australian man, woman and child. Sure there was China and the rest of Asia, and RBA rate cuts ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
It is being reported today that Treasury believe it was really former prime minister Kevin Rudd who saved Australia from the GFC and not the mining industry, but before we get too excited the analysis simply confirms that we don't just have a two-speed ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... productivity so that when the Chindia resources boom peters out in 20-30 years time we'll be ready. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd must be ruing how this debate is so much like a re-run of his mining industry super profits tax policy. It's as if the ...

Researcher van Eyk appoints two, Ruddock departs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
Research house van Eyk loses a senior investment analyst to UBS this month and has since made two new appointments to its analyst team. Caitlin Ruddock left her role at van Eyk after four years to join UBS this month as the research house and consultant ...