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FPA, AFA to lobby MPs for TASA delay

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... will negatively affect financial advisers. The bill is scheduled to be voted upon in Parliament tomorrow, after the Labor party blocked an inquiry about the Tax Laws Amendment bill in the Economics Legislation Committee last week. As a consequence, the ...

Shorten slams opposition's 'freeze-frame' super plans

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... conservative coalition Rip Van Winkle freeze-frame for as long as they are in government," he added. He urged everyone to support Labor's retirement scheme proposals saying: "We are the party who have runs on the board when it comes to superannuation." ...

Government to update More Super calculator

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... Superannuation Bill Shorten, and will draw attention to one of the government's key policies in the lead up to the election. Calling Labor the "party of super", Swan and Shorten said, "For a 30 year old on average full-time wages, the Government's changes ...

Super council won't prevent Labor tax raids

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... statement with Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann and Hockey dismissed the government's measures. "So, the Labor Party tinkers with superannuation then pretends to set up a process to prevent further tinkering!" the statement said. He called ...

Super will improve under Labor: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
The Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten indicated that Labor plans to "improve" super at the sixth Super Roundtable held yesterday as part of the Gillard Government's reform agenda. Shorten hosted the roundtable that brought ...

Stop using super as political pawn: Narev

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... with existing plans to raise compulsory superannuation contributions from the current 9% to 12%. The comments follow the Labor government's attempts to undermine the coalition's election bid by capitalising on iterations that the opposition would call ...

Keep chasing architects of Trio collapse: Agencies

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... Financial Standard that the group plans to put forward a candidate to challenge the seat currently held by Australian Labor Party politician Stephen Jones, as a result of the Gillard Government's alleged unfairness in awarding compensation in the wake ...

Trio Capital action group to put forward Federal Candidate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... Financial Standard that the group plans to put forward a candidate to challenge the seat currently held by Australian Labor Party politician Stephen Jones, as a result of the Gillard Government's alleged unfairness in awarding compensation in the wake ...

A week full of question marks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
Now what's wrong this time? The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the 'mother-of-all-economic statistics' at the end of last week's trading and it was good. But how did Mr. Market react? He thought it was good too until... he didn't. The S&P 500 ...

Labor's $30bn secret super tax plan revealed

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... superannuation returns and would lead to increased government revenue without the need for all these new and increased Labor Party taxes." With this in mind, Cormann suggests that Swan and Shorten should drop their secret $30 billion super tax plan a ...