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Advisers turn budget into opportunity to engage

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... government's warnings before the release of the 2014 budget put advisers on guard and, shortly after the end of Treasurer Joe Hockey's speech; they began the work to help their clients. A number of advisers sent email briefings to their clients which ...

International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... budget under Tony Abbott was either brave or foolhardy," BBC Sydney correspondent Jon Donnison wrote following Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget speech on Tuesday night. The journalist said that "compared to most countries, Australia is doing relatively ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Phew! Well that wasn't so bad after all. Yes Virginia, if you didn't fall asleep listening to Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget speech last night - mainly because most of the measures Joey mentioned were already drip-fed to us days in advanced - you'll ...

Budget forces advisers to rethink tax, retirement strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... will have to review their clients' tax and retirement strategies, following the release of the 2014 budget. Treasurer Joe Hockey confirmed that the Age Pension eligibility age will rise to 70 by 2035 and he said that the government will index the Age ...

Pension age to rise 70 by 2035

JAMES FERNYHOUGH AND AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
The government will raise the Age Pension eligibility age to 70 by 2035, Treasurer Joe Hockey has said in his 2014 budget speech. From 2017, the government will also index the Age Pension, as well as the Disability Support Pension, to inflation rather ...

Industry prepares for Abbott's first budget

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... age, it is not expected that there will be significant changes to superannuation. At a doorstop interview Treasurer Joe Hockey echoed the PM's sentiments, saying: "It will be an easy budget to criticise but for the nation it will be an important budget ...

NAB and FSC tight-lipped on Hockey meetings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... Services Council (FSC) and National Australia Bank (NAB) have given little away about their involvement in Treasurer Joe Hockey's cash-for-meetings program reported by Fairfax this morning. Both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age this morning reported ...

Age Pension to rise to 70 by 2035

MARK SMITH, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has confirmed that he plans to raise the Age Pension eligibility age to 70 by 2035 in the upcoming Budget. Confirmation came in an interview with Alan Jones on 2GB radio in which the two men were discussing the Commission of Audit's ...

Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the strongest signal yet that cuts to the Age Pension will headline a raft of belt-tightening measures in the upcoming Budget. In a speech at Sydney's Doltone House yesterday, the Treasurer said that Australia's spending ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... investigation is more than necessary. In November 2013 a joint release between Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey introduced us to the government's wide-ranging plans. The release said the Murray inquiry was intended to be a 'root and ...