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Personal tax cuts lead the Budget

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
Personal tax cuts were on the top of Treasurer Scott Morrison's five-point list to "strengthen the economy" as he opened his Budget night speech. The Federal Government is proposing middle and lower income earners pay up to $530 less in tax, starting ...

Baby boomers receive $259 million, pension work bonus lifted

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... three measures don't commence until July 2019. The government has also proposed changes to legislative frameworks to drive a push for retirement products. It will amend the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 to introduce a retirement covenant ...

What the associations want from Budget 2018

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... thinks superannuation funds should not be allowed to borrow directly. Earlier this month, ASFA published a white paper to push for structural policy reforms for women, 80% of whom don't have enough upon retirement. ASFA has condemned Melbourne-based ...

ANZ culls sales incentives for planners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... to work with ANZ will now need to have a relevant undergraduate degree and industry certification. The bank said it will push existing planners to enrol in further training by January, 2019. ANZ is promising to compensate 9000 clients who received unappropriated ...

Govt reforms can tackle super gender gap: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... women won't have enough money upon retirement. ASFA is using its new white paper, Women's Economic Security in Retirement, to push for urgent structural policy reforms needed on the growing disparity between the retirement incomes of men and women. Between ...

Super fund launches renewable energy investment option

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... consistent returns available from investment in large scale renewable energy generators. New Yorkers united this year to push for multi-billion dollar pension funds to divest fossil fuels, 350.org founder Bill McKibben said. "This happened because ordinary ...

Royal Commission to drive independent advice market: GlobalData

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... industry, which has previously been on a relentless path of horizontal and vertical consolidation, is about to get a strong push towards fragmentation and divestment," Hoevel said. Australia's wealth giants advise on products like superannuation and ...

"Collegiality" hinders appointments of female executives

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... five ASX 200 companies had no female directors and only 74 had reached or crossed the 30% target. As a part of its renewed push launched earlier this month and as it approaches its two-year anniversary in May, 30% Club's executive search working group ...

High profile adviser under fire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
The Royal Commission heard how Fair Work commissioner Donna McKenna received inappropriate financial advice from Sam Henderson, chief executive and senior financial adviser at Henderson Maxwell. McKenna sought financial advice from Henderson in late- ...

Chief economist update: Malcolm puts agricuture in the middle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... and give PM Turnbull something to crow about but given agriculture's small contribution to the domestic economy, I wouldn't push it.