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No need for more super bureaucracy: Cormann

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
There was no need for more bureaucracy to protect Australian's superannuation savings, shadow minister for Financial Services Mathias Cormann has said in response to the government's announcement of a superannuation charter. Cormann was also critical ...

Opposition and VOFF criticise response to Trio report

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
... response to the reports by the Parliamentary Joint Committee and Richard St. John on the collapse of Trio Capital. Shadow minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Mathias Cormann said the the government's reaction to the reports was "very disappointing." ...

Funding for women on super boards a union hand out: Cormann

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... handout to minister for financial services and superannuation Bill Shorten's "union mates," said Mathias Cormann, shadow minister for superannuation. Rather than a genuine attempt to encourage diversity, it favours union dominated industry super funds ...

Shorten reins in employer involvement in default super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... course, despite being initiated after acknowledgement the current system needed more transparency and competition. Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Mathias Cormann yesterday accused the minister of 'gazumping' the process, saying ...

Super governance Bill passes amid cries of favouritism

BEN COLLINS, MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... are as important. In a statement yesterday a spokesperson for Mathias Cormann, shadow assistant treasurer and shadow minister for financial services and superannuation claimed that a scale test helped "union dominated" industry super funds maintain their ...

No roadblocks to success: Cormann

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
Mathias Cormann, Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, came out swinging yesterday, accusing the Federal government of implementing "chaotic and unpredictable" regulations. Cormann swore a "blood oath ...

Cormann criticises trust reform delay

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
Shadow Minister for Financial Services Mathias Cormann has criticised an additional delay on promised tax reform for managed investment trusts. In a statement issued this morning following news Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury would announce the delay ...

FOFA passes as industry backs professionalism

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... is being rushed through Parliament just 10 days before its proposed start date," said Senator Mathias Cormann, Shadow Minister for Financial Services. "The important regulations that underpin the FOFA legislation have yet to be finalised." Regulations ...

PJC blasts Trio follow-up

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... improvements to able them to act more rapidly and decisively than they have acted in the past," Cormann said. The Shadow Minister for Financial Services also called on the government to appropriately resource ASIC to allow a proper investigation of the ...

Less tax appeal for high income earners in super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... is understood those earning between $180,000 and $300,000 will continue to benefit from the current concession Shadow Minister for Superannuation, Mathias Cormann has called the move a "tax grab". "As of 1 July 2012, courtesy of previous Labor changes ...