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SMSF platform strengthens distribution team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
... manager for international management software provider Reckon's Reckon Docs division. NowInfinity chief executive Amreeta Abbott said the appointment is an extremely exciting development for the company as it continues to leverage new opportunities in ...

Labor takes aim at executive pay

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... $1.2 million bonus), and a retirement payout of $10.79 million. Under current Federal disclosure rules, amended by the Abbott government in 2015, minimum requirements for reporting entities financial reporting disclosures of their key management personnel ...

Retirement income fund launches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... Vertium, Dyson was an investment analyst at Cadence Capital and an equities analyst and portfolio manager at Maple-Brown Abbott. Mueller joined from Forager Funds where he was responsible for assisting with Forager's large-cap Australian equities portfolio ...

Tax breaks delivered to first home buyers

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... scheme is loosely based on the Rudd government's first home saver account that were introduced in 2008 but abandoned by the Abbott government, this new scheme will operate very differently as it will be administered by the Australian Taxation Office ...

Government debt on its way to $606bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... increase in Commonwealth government securities on issue. In 2021 these will be more than twice what they were when the Abbott government was elected in 2013, which means that as a share of GDP, this debt has grown from 17% and is on its way to 29%. This ...

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... Howard/Costello, 2006 The decision to reverse the changes to the Fringe Benefits Tax on employer-provided motor vehicles - Abbott/Hockey, 2013 The introduction of the Senior Australians Tax Offset - Howard/Costello, 2001 The abandonment of the indexation ...

Super fund names new portfolio manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... has worked for various investment management firms including Aegon (Edinburgh), Scottish Widows (Edinburgh), Maple Brown Abbott (Sydney) and Manulife (Hong Kong). He was most recently working as director at Silvermills Capital where he was an adviser ...

NowInfinity completes restructure

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... boutique venture capital firm. The restructure also saw the formal exit of co-founder and director of NowInfinity, Grant Abbott. Abbott will continue to work with NowInfinity on SMSF platform activities. The restructure, which is intended to expand NowInfinity's ...

Global infrastructure outperforming equities and property

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
Investment manager Maple-Brown Abbott says there's a clear benefit for investors in separating the investment decision between property and infrastructure in a portfolio. Releasing its latest investment research paper, Maple-Brown Abbott's global listed ...

AMP appoints two directors

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... was also managing director of Promina Group and Tyndall Australia and has been a non-executive director of Maple-Brown Abbott and Alinta. The second appointment, Peter Varghese, was recently the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. ...