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Albanese set to overhaul Stage 3 tax cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024
... about justifying the changes in another radio interview with KIIS 106.5 to help lower and middle-income earners. "Middle Australia particularly, is doing it really tough. People have a mortgage, so we're looking at ways in which we can provide assistance ...

Will HNW firms re-enter retail advice?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023
... personalisation and bespoke offerings, while at the opposite end there is the need to provide suitable services for middle Australia. "That creates challenges for asset managers too. Are we [providing] really institutional-grade bespoke illiquid solutions ...

Bridges can meet advice affordability gap: Mota

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2023
... profitability of advice is improving as expected," he said. "We think Bridges can become a leading advice proposition for middle Australia and that continues to be a work in progress," he said. Mota expects the integration will take another 12 months. ...

Increasing SG costly for middle Australia: Grattan

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... systems. "We need to restore appropriate savings incentives so that that super can do what it was designed to do for middle Australia, which is to supplement the Age Pension," she said. Wages have been flat for some time and there have been no SG increases ...

Industry responds to election outcome

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... referred to Morrison's victory as "revenge of the Howard battlers" and said the Prime Minister's campaign "exploited middle Australia's fears about Labor's big taxing and far-reaching reform agenda." "Electoral results suggest the so-called 'Howard battlers' ...

Advice clients demand philanthropic conversations

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
Philanthropy is becoming part of the conversation between financial advisers and clients as it's an area increasingly accessible to middle Australians, an estate planning expert says. Australian Unity Trustees national manager of estate panning Anna ...

Super objective paves way for taxation changes

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... 2017 - would have a significant negative impact on part-pensioners. "The new Age Pension asset test will hit middle Australia hard. While tonight's Budget changes includes some good news for low income earners, there is nothing to compensate the many ...

FSC sends final budget message

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... all the tabled proposals the FSC's biggest budget wish is for the government to move the superannuation dial on middle Australia and increase retirement savings, something that can't be achieved by reducing concessional contribution caps. FSC chief executive ...

Industry bodies attack SG freeze speculation

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... cut of less than a dollar a week." The Financial Services Council (FSC) said any plans to reduce the savings of middle Australia will increase long term pressure on the federal budget. "Future generations should not bear the cost of short term budget ...

Super doing its job: Actuaries Institute

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... 93% of retirement income for those in the bottom 5% income bracket, 73% for the bottom quartile and 44% for "middle Australia". While those in the top quartile income bracket will easily achieve a comfortable retirement, they still qualify for part-payment ...
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