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Retiree expenditure remains modest: study

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... commissioned by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and conducted by Monash Business School's Australian Centre of Financial Studies (ACFS), found 80% of retired households report expenditure levels considered to be a basic standard ...

ACFS head departs to Vic government

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
Executive director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS), Amy Auster, is stepping down from her role to join the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance. Auster is taking up a new role as deputy secretary (economic) at the Victorian ...

Future Fund gains two board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... governance council. He is a current member of the EY global risk executive committee, and sits on the boards of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the St Vincent's Medical Research Institute. The announcement was made on 23 March, and amid ...

SMSFA appoints academic to board

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... superannuation to its board of directors. Professor Deborah Ralston, who was previously executive director of the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) from January 2009 to July 2015, will join the board from 1 July 2016. Ralston has held a ...

Aged care concerns top Challenger advice list

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... Challenger's choice to develop its CarePlus product recently. Monash University professor Deborah Ralston told an Australian Centre for Financial Studies' (ACFS) Funding Australia's Future forum last week that the aged care sector has been through a ...

Imputation's economic effects unclear: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... anywhere near as much as they would like to about the implications of dividend imputation forming economic policy. Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) research director, Professor Kevin Davis, reiterated this message at the Funding Australia's ...

Retirement incomes become industry focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... further link the facets of retirement with a suitable pension system without more investment. Speaking at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies' (ACFS) Funding Australia's Future forum in Sydney yesterday, Vamos said super's current structure does ...

Mercer rates Aussie super B+

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... second. Both countries received an A-grade rating and are the only two to do so in the index's seven year history. Australian Centre for Financial Studies executive director, Amy Auster, said the Index continues to be used by policy makers and researchers ...

FSI panellist challenges ASIC register sale

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... proposed an alternative model for the sale of ASIC's Business Registers. Davis, who is the research director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, has released a discussion paper, titled Privatising Public Information: The Sale of the ASIC ...

Government should super seed low income earners

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... making it highly affordable in its own right," the ISA statement said. According to a report released by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) last week, the average superannuation ...