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Government could force QIC to fund Queensland infra

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
The Labor government in Queensland could force QIC to reduce its international and cash exposure to allocate more funds to the State's infrastructure. Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt said in his first budget speech that over the next six months the ...

Hockey defends budget backflip

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... journalist Leigh Sales about "having one policy and replacing it with another," Hockey argued that the previous Labor government "locked in growth and spending levels that were unsustainable." "We're trying to avoid what the Labor government did, which ...

NSW to receive $2 billion infrastructure incentive

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... time when the mining investment boom is receding. The first deal under the Initiative was signed with the ACT Labor Government on 19 February 2015." The government expects the Asset Recycling Initative to generate nearly $40 billion in infrastructure ...

Industry furious at financial advice swap

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... showed Australians really needed protection from poor financial advice. The laws, introduced by the previous Labor government in 2012, gave consumers a better idea of the commissions they were paying and gave them the option to opt in or out of their ...

PROFILE: Goldman Sachs Asset Management head of fixed income for Asia-Pacific Philip Moffitt

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... Bank in 1986. The futures market had just been established, the superannuation industry was starting up and the Labor government had recently opened up licencing for foreign banks. "It was just dumb luck to be honest," Moffitt remembers. "Just about ...

Govt to amend fund merger tax laws

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... up in such mergers are not inadvertently hit with tax penalties. The amendments were proposed by the previous Labor government following concerns that the current law is unclear about how members' account balances should be treated in fund mergers that ...

Bowen supports lump sum status quo

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Financial Advice Reforms (FoFA) "shambolic, secretive and dismissive of proper processes," and signaled a future Labor government would look to reinstate the original reforms if they are successfully repealed. However, he did not express a strong opinion ...

Super funds have clout to demand transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... funds have also resisted full disclosure, arguing the initial standards proposed by Treasury (under the former Labor government) are too deep to be practicable. But Sicilia said such fears were overblown. "Whatever the disclosure requirements are, we ...

Former Future Fund MD joins Qantas Super

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... Superannuation Fund and chief executive of the Superannuation Trust of Australia. He was also head of the former Labor Government's Super Advisory Committee on SuperStream. "We are delighted to have someone of Paul's calibre joining the board, and are ...

Jeremy Cooper: Rethinking retirement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... Review, Jeremy Cooper knows Australia's superannuation system as well as anyone. His recommendations led to the Labor government's Stronger Super reforms, which radically changed the way the system operates. Many in the industry, still struggling to ...