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Advisers urged to meet challenges together

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... collaborative, can-do attitude that has always defined the association's annual meeting. AFA chief executive Brad Fox, new treasurer Deborah Kent and outgoing vice-president Jenny Brown each used their opening addresses, ahead of an extraordinary general ...

New director at QIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
... announcing a new director QIC has also reappointed its chair Don Luke and existing director Andrew King. Queensland Acting Treasurer, Kate Jones, welcomed the appointments as a combination of "experience and continuity with an injection of new talent." ...

Industry heavyweights back listed venture fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... fintech start-ups. H2Ocean, the latest brainchild of H2 Ventures founders Ben and Toby Heap, was officially launched by Treasurer Scott Morrison and now the IPO has the backing of financial industry heavyweights including Link Group chairman Michael ...

Next wave of super legislation rolls in

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
Attempting to keep superannuation reforms on the move, Treasurer Scott Morrison released more draft legislation yesterday. Among the second tranche of legislation are plans to implement the $1.6 million transfer balance cap, limiting the amount an individual ...

AustralianSuper and IFM seek energy asset

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... Investors and AustralianSuper submitted an unsolicited proposal to purchase a 50.4% interest in a 99-year lease. NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian said the institutional investors' proposal "is another indication of the strong market interest for Ausgrid." ...

ASIC investigating ASX outage

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has confirmed that ASIC is investigating September 19's significant disruption to ASX trading. The ASX has blamed the outage, which was the longest in five years, on a "hardware failure" though no other details were ...

Advisers welcome super changes but need stability

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... decision to drop the $500,000 non-concessional cap but argue changes to the system need to stop. Announced yesterday, Treasurer Scott Morrison said the government will replace the proposed $500,000 cap with a new measure to reduce the existing annual ...

Brown to leave after AFA board re-election

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... Super managing director Marc Bineham will take over as president, replacing Deborah Kent who will move to the role of treasurer; a position currently held by Experience Wealth chief executive Steve Crawford. Elsewhere, Henderson Ross & Co's Tim Ross ...

$500,000 non-concessional cap scratched

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... Budget measures on superannuation to drop the $500,000 lifetime non-concessional cap and alter several other policies. Treasurer Scott Morrison announced the changes this morning and said the government will replace the $500,000 proposal with a new measure ...

New chair for Supervised Investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... telecommunications. Coonan is a former Cabinet Minister and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate and also served as Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Revenue and Minister for Communications throughout her political career. Coonan's appointment ...