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Industry furious at financial advice swap

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... financial collapse. The disallowance of the government regulations means Labor's FOFA laws will remain in force. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann was unimpressed, describing the hijacking of Senate proceedings on Wednesday and a Labor disallowance motion ...

FoFA disallowance could put industry into breach of law

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... Minister's stated aim of improving the quality of advice for consumers." During the morning session in the Senate, Finance Minister and Senator Mathias Cormann asked the opposition to take more time to consider the issue and said that "there is a more ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... Finance Ministry to do more growth stimulating while the central bank is busy driving inflation out of town. But as finance minister Guido Mantega recently commented, "New measures should be announced, but they aren't ready yet". And there folks, in ...

Government clarifies adviser register funding

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... licensee annual lodgement fee with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). A spokesperson for Finance Minister Mathias Cormann told Financial Standard that the current lodgement fee of $38 will increase to $44 and that the $24 fee ...

Arthur's back. Wait, no he's not

COLIN BRINSDEN, AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... Arthur Sinodinos, suggesting he had been restored to the ministry. The department later corrected the name to Finance Minister and Acting Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann. "Treasury apologises to all its stakeholders for this error and the confusion ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... slated to address the Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) National Congress 2014 in Adelaide. In equities news, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and Medibank Private managing director George Savvides will announce details of Medibank Private prospectus. ...

Coalition secures PUP support on FoFA vote

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... the support of crossbench Senators to pass the FoFA amendments through legislation before the end of the year. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann argued that the changes to FoFA provide "high quality financial advice by removing unnecessary and costly ...

Coalition Senators head-to-head over FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... could be disallowed by Nationals' Senator John Williams after he staged a parliamentary confrontation against Finance Minister and Liberal Senator Mathias Cormann. The Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, chaired by Williams, has ...

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... the August reading and five percentage points over consensus expectations. Now we know the story behind Chinese finance minister Lou Jiwei's statement on the ministry's website that China won't significantly change its economic policies because of weakness ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... economic slowdown). But we're getting more. Our big brother's - China - economy is slowing and weekend reports of finance minister Lou Jiwei's statement on the ministry's website that China won't significantly change its economic policies because of ...