JIM CHALMERS
Financial planning
The Financial Services Council and Financial Advice Association Australia have welcomed the 2023 budget from Treasurer Jim Chalmers but feel there is a lack of informatio...
Funds management
There is a real need to remove the language of “woke capitalism” from ESG investment, according to a panel, if there is to be progress in Australia. ...
Funds management
With significant action towards sustainable finance announced in the 2023–24 budget, the building blocks are now in place for meaningful change, according to RIAA’s chief...
Funds management
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned economic growth is expected to slow significantly to 1.5 per cent in 2024....
Funds management
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has handed down his second Budget, outlining how Labor is preparing Australians for its ‘defining decade’ by helping with cost-of-living pressures....
Funds management
The Treasurer has confirmed inflation has “passed its peak”, as data shows CPI inflation fell in the 12 months to the March quarter....
Superannuation
Indexing the $3 million threshold and using actual earnings to calculate tax are among suggestions from associations to the Treasury super concession consultation, descri...
Superannuation
The consultation paper on doubling the concessional tax rate for superannuation balances exceeding $3 million would take feedback from stakeholders until mid-April. ...
People & Products
Former RBA governor Robert Johnston, who held the post for seven years, has died this week....
Funds management
In its annual review, the IMF has said the Australian economy is “on a narrow path for a soft landing” but continued monetary and fiscal policy tightening is needed....
Funds management
KPMG economists have responded to Treasurer Jim Chalmers economic update, stating the inflation forecast is “confronting” for the rest of the year and spending cuts are n...
Funds management
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned inflation in Australia “will be worse before it gets better”....
Policy & Regulation
Organisations have welcomed the Albanese Labor government and the appointment of Stephen Jones as minister for financial services with hopes for a focus on education and ...
Outsider
When does a tweak become a change, Outsider wonders, and who decides when one becomes the other?...
Superannuation
Labor would not make any “wholesale changes” to Your Future, Your Super reforms but has instead committed to tweaking aspects of it in response to emergent challenges tha...
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