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Wollemi Capital appoints former state Treasurer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
... catalysing public and private action on climate. Prior to the appointment, Kean was the member of Hornsby in the NSW state government for 13 years, holding several senior roles including serving as NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation from ...

FAAA calls on advisers: 'We ask for your support'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... "leaving virtually the entire mess for the rest of the advice profession to pick up". In addition, Anderson said the government failed to deliver on its commitment of a prospective scheme - in which the financial advice sector would only be expected ...

ASFA pushes for tax redistribution to benefit low-income workers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... Australia (ASFA) is proposing to increase support for low-income earners by redistributing the revenue generated from the government's planned additional taxation on superannuation balances above $3 million (Division 296) and for those earning $250,000 ...

Industry demands action to stop abusers claiming victims' super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
The superannuation sector's biggest bodies are calling on the government to introduce legal reforms that would prevent family violence abusers from being able to access their victims' super. Existing laws permit abusers to claim an abuse victim's ...

No one immune to cost-of-living pain: ABS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... impacted living costs, according to the data. Pensioners, and other Australians whose main source of income is from government payments, saw the biggest quarterly jump in living costs. This was as a result of higher rental prices, Marquardt said. Working ...

Choice products require fairer framework: FSC

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
... features these products offer to meet the needs of more sophisticated consumers in the market," the FSC said. If the government continues to apply the performance test on broad Choice products, the research warns of the reduction in choice products and ...

New shadow assistant treasurer's vision for advice, super

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... Council (FSC) this morning. Discussing the Liberal Party's plans for the financial services industry should it form government at the next election, Howarth said, in one of his first major public addresses since being reshuffled by opposition leader ...

US election outcome tops investor concerns: Natixis

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... growth and greater protection for Australian's retirement savings... Our strategists are picking credit, favouring government and investment grade corporates over riskier high-yield and emerging market securities," Watson said. Opinions on sustainable ...

The four Ds to watch in the decades to come: La Trobe

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... This is followed by decarbonisation, which despite broader concerns around its future under a potential Republican government in the US, Watson said will continue to be a focus in some sense. "We'll continue to see a whole range of investment across ...

Super for housing will cause rents to soar: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... built a transformative policy miracle in super. It is the envy of the world," Schubert said. "Both major parties of government have contributed to super's success - and both of them have a duty to safeguard it. "Strong and enduring bipartisanship ...