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Super funds defend controversial weapons holdings

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... banned from investing in it "since at least 2021 due to 'exclusions related to military weapons-related Conventions or Treaties ratified by Australia'," Shoebridge said. Shoebridge wants Labor to introduce mandatory ethical investment rules for ...

Advisers put on notice: HLB Mann Judd

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2023
... it did during the time of the amnesty, increasing its level of resourcing and entering into tax information exchange treaties with other jurisdictions," said Chye. He flagged common errors made when claiming the funds being transferred, often between ...

What the associations want from Budget 2018

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... wants the government to prioritise negotiating a tax treaty with Luxembourg and Hong Kong and improve on existing tax treaties in addition to special withholding tax rate for Passport funds like last year. The FSC has also opposed a Medicare Levy increase. ...

Brexit endangers EU asset manager passport

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... services, but this is very ambitious, and potentially it's not even legally feasible if you look at the wording of EU treaties," she warns. It has until March 2019 to agree on the terms and foot a €60 billion ($89bn) exit bill. She says a number of ...

Eurozone splintering is biggest risk in Brexit fallout

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... Poland - the population can make petitions for referenda, but legal limitations make petitions for votes on international treaties unlikely to succeed. "This doesn't mean that investors should be complacent. Populist support is strong in Europe, and ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... being crushed. It had to be done at a European level, and the French were opposed." The path of least resistance, less treaties to be re-negotiated, systems to be modified, models re-worked, is the preservation of the status quo. However, and to quote ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... considerable benefits. The implementation of CHAFTA must not be delayed. Indeed the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Treaties should recommend swift commencement. The stakes are high. A delay would damage Australia economically and would hinder the national ...

China FTA gives Australia "first mover advantage"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... their peers in the United States or Japan don't have. Speaking in front of the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties on behalf of the funds management sector, Financial Services Council (FSC) director of policy Andrew Bragg said: "ChAFTA ...

FSC calls for new govt agency to grow industry overseas

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... integration issues covering mutual recognition arrangements, financial services sections of fair trade agreements, double tax treaties, the Asia Region Funds Passport and coordination of existing government agencies. "This government resource should ...

Australian economy "professionally managed": World Bank

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... years then there will be problems for the global economy." The Lisbon Treaty is an international agreement amending two treaties which form the constitutional basis of the European Union. These treaties outline how the region is governed and the mandate ...
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