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Greens strike pension test deal with coalition

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
A deal between the Coalition and the Greens means special consideration will be given to retirement incomes in the federal government's Tax Discussion Paper, and proposed changes to the pension asset test will be passed by parliament. The deal was struck ...

AMP Capital fundamental equities head retires

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
AMP Capital's head of fundamental equities has announced her retirement. Ella Brown joined the company in 2011, where she oversaw many aspects of AMP Capital's Global equities and fixed income division. Prior to that, she held non-executive investment ...

Super rules for women still unclear

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... Funds of Australia (ASFA) released a report, The future of Australia's super: a new framework for a better system, and Greens MP Adam Bandt took up one of its recommendations by introducing The Sex Discrimination Amendment (Boosting Superannuation for ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... there is a systemic problem with financial planning and that banks have obviously not been doing the right thing," he said. Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said that the hearing is "not just to name and shame" bank executives. "It is a way of raising ...

Future Generation fund adds more big names

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
Future Generation Investment Company (FGX) has beefed up its board with the addition of four well-known industry figures. Paradice Asset Management founder David Paradice, Victor Smorgon Group chief financial officer David Leeton, Greenstone Partners' ...

NAB to face Senate grilling over advice scandal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... know because we will put the information together and we will put the appropriate authorities to investigate," he said. Greens' Senator Peter Whish-Wilson agreed that "it has taken whistleblowers and leaked documents on all occasions for these things ...

Grexit not Greek to Brits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
No deal! This is the latest news on the Greek bail out talks, and onwards until the next bluff we go... until the 11th hour when ultimately Greece and its creditors suddenly become lovey-dovey once more holding hands while kicking the can down the road ...

Tsipras has a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
"Greece has now become like herpes to the Eurozone, once you catch it you can't get rid of it." This is what I typed on this space way back in June 2011 when the Europeans were in the midst of a sovereign debt crisis with Greece at the epicentre of ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... Economics Committee issued a report that was broadly supportive of the Coalition's proposed amendments. But both Labor and the Greens dissented. Over the next few months, tension rose between those in favour of and against the amendments. In late November ...

Labor asks for bipartisan consensus on FSI super issues

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation in an effort to lift standards in the financial planning industry. Greens' Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said that "the Murray Inquiry recommendations are a big warning sign to the government on their ...