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Government reform to close super gender gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... saving for retirement and the gender gap won't be relieved without government input. That was the key message shared by Minister for Financial Services and Revenue Kelly O'Dwyer in a video address to the Women, Super & Wealth Summit yesterday. O'Dwyer ...

Labor renews calls for banking Royal Commission

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... that can get to the bottom of systemic and cultural issues in the banking and financial services sector." "The Prime Minister has consistently failed to stand up for the victims of financial misconduct in this country, preferring instead to protect his ...

Opposition floats SMSF borrowing ban

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... government is expected to unveil the details of their own housing affordability measures in the May 9 budget. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann told Sky News this morning that the government's view is "that compulsory super is to generate an income in ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
Li starts to get what he likes... and then some. Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang's 6.5% growth target for this year is tracking well (surprise, surprise) - with a buffer to boot - as China's economy growth accelerated in the first three months of ...

ClearView slams APL standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... allow sub-par practices to continue. ClearView managing director Simon Swanson described the FSC draft standard as a "Yes Minister" document, confirming the industry could not self-regulate and would achieve nothing in terms of increasing competition ...

Financial advice standards body revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... financial advice has been established, setting in motion the implementation of the professional standards legislation. Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer named the directors appointed to the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics ...

Philanthropy report offers valuable insights for NFPs: Perpetual

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
... Giving Australia 2005 and was commissioned by the Department of Social Services (DSS) to assist the work of the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership. The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS), with the Centre for ...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
First the good news. Crude oil prices have closed the March quarter of 2017 above the psychological US$50.00 per barrel mark - the level they have risen to since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that they (and non-OPEC ...

Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... It's official. It's signed, sealed and delivered. Making good on the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations ...

Confidently improving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
With one political uncertainty removed - last week's Dutch elections where Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) defeated the far-right leader Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV), indicating the rejection ...