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Super gap concerns plaguing over 50s

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
Older Australian's are increasingly worried about the retirement savings gap, with one in three women believing they'll have "far from enough to retire one", compared to one in five men. MLC's latest Wealth Sentiment Survey the quarterly survey of over ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... April represents a substantial 19.7% improvement from the previous month's A$1.97 billion shortfall and is the smallest trade gap since February last year. The improvement in the country's trade balance was due to the combined effects of a 1.0% increase ...

Foreign managers priced out of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... mandate." Tellingly, it concluded: "If the fees charged to Australian investors are lowered significantly further (with a wider gap between Australia and overseas jurisdictions), there is a risk of these global managers removing their products and investment ...

Credit ratings agencies sign PRI statement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... [investor] interest in quantifying environmental, social and governance factors, and we're focused on closing the information gap and deepening our analysis on these issues." President and chief executive of Moody's Corporation, Raymond McDaniel, said ...

Qualitas adds two directors

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... combination of significant foreign buyers and the potential for pockets of oversupply. "This has created a widening of the funding gap, allowing us to provide an important source of funding to high-quality partners, and strong returns to investors in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... consistent with slowing inflation. This slowing trend is also seen in the market-based measure of inflation expectations - the gap between the nominal 10-year Australian bond yield and the yield on 10-year Treasury Indexed Bonds. The current differential ...

Financial services lend spotlight on nation's leading philanthropists

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... Financial Standard said: "While we cannot make a direct comparison between the Australian and the US philanthropic sector, the big gap between the two means there's more room to grow our local not-for-profit sector. We hope that by highlighting the work ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... immensely and there's a demand. There's also a demand for private capital to get in and there are some managers filling that gap to enable the local councils to build social housing or special purpose housing and so on. It's a small part of the impact ...

Budget delivers blow to aged care

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2016
... expected. With an ageing population, the growth in expenditure reflects growth in demand and these cuts may create a funding gap that the transitional funding will do little to address," Cowling said. In an attempt to offset the cuts, a $53.3 million ...

Reforms aimed at supporting women

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... economist, Stephen Anthony, welcomed the government's decision not to abolish the payment, highlighting the need to close the gap between super savings. "This top up payment, which was due to be abolished in 2017, is critical in ensuring lower paid workers ...