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Actuaries Institute releases retirement policy review

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2021
... to retirement savings and disincentives for pension lump sums and bequests. Securing Adequate Retirement Incomes for an Ageing Australia is a policy review that took a year to complete, incorporated feedback from over 200 actuaries, and is the institute's ...

Industry associations slam last resort scheme

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2021
... below 20,000, the FPA fears that the proposed scheme will further reduce the population. "COVID impacts and Australia's ageing population mean the nation's advice needs are growing yet escalating regulatory costs have already caused a mass exodus ...

Inheritance not expected: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
... Australian government needs to find ways to raise revenue to support increased spending demands generated by COVID-19, an ageing population, pressure on health systems and increasing environmental disasters. "Reintroducing inheritance or estate taxation ...

SG Hiscock introduces medical tech fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2021
... tailwinds that are driving innovation and growth in medical research and technology." And with populations in developed markets ageing, there is mounting pressure on healthcare institutions to invest in early intervention and prevention, he added, saying ...

Super tax concessions to outstrip Age Pension by 2040: Report

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... Australia's budget and economy outlook for the next 40 years has been hit by COVID-19 and pre-existing structural trends like ageing population. It predicts the Australian economy will grow at a slower pace over the next 40 years compared to the ...

Fostering the ageing workforce

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... the workforce and they could offset adverse economic impacts, according to CEPAR. The Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research found those aged over 55 years old make up 19% of the workforce in 2021, up from 9% in 1991. By 2050, workers aged ...

Australian Unity to acquire aged care facility provider

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... reflects Australian Unity's confidence in aged care as a sector. "On top of increasing demand for quality aged care from an ageing population, the recent Royal Commission will result in greater support for more ageing-in place options. "This presents ...

Generational wealth gap continues to widen

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... is being compounded by a series of policy decisions made by successive governments." She argued that this is because the ageing population in Australia means there are more voters of an older age, and politicians court those votes. The super tax concession ...

ATO seeks IT contractors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... requested tenders from interested companies for a core registry platform for its defined benefit schemes that will replace its ageing systems.

Deborah Ralston to advise Allianz Retire+

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... Retire+ to institutional market since September 2020. It has now set up a new four-people advisory panel on retirement and ageing. It includes Deborah Ralston, Nicolette Rubinsztein, Sally Evans and Fintan Thornton. Ralston was one of the three panel ...