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Infrastructure investment at risk from default super changes

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... should resonate politically but there's a constant battle between government thinking. He expressed disappointment in Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer's attack on super fund governance in Fairfax Media today. She suggests reintroducing ...

Super 2.0 must deliver retirement certainty: FSC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... super out of the Budget cycle and link it to the five-yearly intergenerational report." Addressing the breakfast, shadow minister for small business and financial services Katy Gallagher reaffirmed Labor's driving ideology that the tax treatment of super ...

Japan ripe for investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... consumed and these guys are back in the hospital. The reality of higher dividend streams, off share buybacks and Prime Minister Abe delivering on fiscal policy is starting to come through and I think it is an excellent time to engage." In May 2016 Wisdom ...

Super funds lagging on group insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
Federal Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer stressed the importance of "balancing the offering of insurance inside superannuation" in her speech at the 2016 Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia conference. She noted ...

PC to deliver Super 2.0: FSC

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... competitive on the open market and that it should better-deliver on the needs of younger members. Her comments followed Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer's keynote at the conference where she said: "It is critically important ...

Labor blindsides super legislation

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... all despite Labor's attempts to blindside the occasion. The legislation stems from this year's Budget announcements and Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer said there are four key measures being put forward, including: Permitting ...

New investment vehicles need work: industry

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
... Comparatively if a foreign fund had people in Australia doing the same transaction, it wouldn't be Australian sourced. Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O'Dwyer, said yesterday the "industry has indicated concern that the current withholding ...

Trump and Brexit comes back to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... across the pond. Just when everything seems to be moving in the right decision, all systems go for Brexit with Prime Minister Teresa May ready to trigger "Article 50" of the Lisbon Treaty to start formal Brexit proceedings by the end of March 2017, the ...

ANZ appoints former Finance Department boss

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... Department of Health, secretary for the Department of Health and Ageing, and deputy secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She began her career in public service at the Australian Bureau of Statistics and later took a key role ...

Russia and India sign investment partnership

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have overseen a signing ceremony to create a US$1 billion fund for Russian investment in Indian business. The fund is a partnership between the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) ...