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Fund managers nervously await 'golden visa' reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... said. Source: Department of Home Affairs Business as usual - for now The SIV program was established by the Gillard government in 2012 and has been tweaked by successive governments. SIV applicants must invest at least $5 million and meet the Complying ...

Push for more foreign investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... fund managers. The commission called for the scheme to be terminated back in 2016 after it was created by the Gillard government in 2012.

Former Labor senator joins Sargon

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
A former cabinet minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments was appointed to Sargon's board. Stephen Conroy has joined as a non-executive director at Sargon, as the firm embarks on its next growth phase. Commenting on Conroy's appointment, Sargon ...

Women-led companies better for investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... scorecard, released by the Australian Workplace Gender Equality Agency that was established by the previous Gillard government to monitor gender participation in the economy, revealed that across the workforce that women comprise 26% of key management ...

Government scraps Labor's annuities reforms

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2013
The government will not proceed with Labor's plan to grant tax concessions to retirement income derived from deferred lifetime annuities (DLAs). Under Labor's proposed legislation announced as part of the 2013-14 budget, DLA earnings would have received ...

Macquarie loses court battle with ATO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... strengthen the government's attempt to toughen its stance on abuses of the OBU tax regime. In May this year, the Gillard government announced it would introduce reforms aimed at curtailing abuses. Among the government's commitments were "closing loopholes ...

Opposition challenges Labor to review Trio fraud

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... Financial Services and Superannuation Mathias Cormann has called on new Treasurer Chris Bowen to review the Gillard government's response to the Trio Capital scandal. Described as the "largest superannuation fraud in Australian history", the Trio theft ...

FSC lobbies Rudd for last minute FoFA delay

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... making it difficult for the industry to comply." Having had numerous requests for a delay turned down by the Gillard government, Brogden said he hoped Rudd's comments in the wake of the caucus vote last night, that he wants to work hand-in-hand with ...

Next government to reconsider super taxes: Grattan Inst

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
Bringing the commonwealth budget into structural surplus will require the next government to be very different to the Rudd-Gillard and Howard governments, and this will inevitably force a review of superannuation taxes, argued the Grattan Institute ...

Government to hold public forums on Super Charter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... interested parties to attend a public forum on the future Charter of Superannuation Adequacy and Sustainability. The Gillard government announced its intention to create the Super Charter in April. It also announced the creation of a Council of Superannuation ...
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