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Govt responds to self-funded retirees

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... or hold a Seniors Health Card would not miss out with an annual $300 Low Income Supplement payment available through Centrelink. Meanwhile, Shorten has hit out at Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, accusing the Liberal leader of trying to claim back thousands ...

Energy Super offers online "next generation" pensions calculator

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... offers better accuracy than fixed calculators. Developed by software firm Provisio, the new calculator incorporates Centrelink aged pension entitlements, the company said. It also provides recommendations to bridge any shortfall between a member's expected ...

Intra-fund opens new doors for advisers

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... areas of advice such as transition to retirement, intra-pension advice, nomination of beneficiaries, superannuation and Centrelink payments, and general retirement planning. While advisers have since raised concerns that consumers will now get financial ...

Disability trust comes with caveat

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... an adviser must be aware of how any accounts or funds may affect the disabled individual qualification to receive a Centrelink Assets Test exemption of up to $563,250 (annually indexed). Other conditions that apply to the disability trust include the ...

Investors turn to rev mortgages for income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... so people who were looking for $200 per month extra were having a lump sum coming their way, which mucked up their Centrelink and pension [payments]," he said. Meanwhile, the Deloitte study found the reverse mortgage market grew 9 per cent, in terms ...

Coin upgrades SoA services

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... self managed super funds (SMSFs) and individual clients. These strategies include: non super and super; insurance; Centrelink and estate planning recommendations. In addition to reducing the manual SoA editing time through the automatic population of ...

Western Financial wins Water Corp Super mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... financial planning service last month. The advice provided is limited to matters within super. These include taxation, Centrelink entitlements, consolidation of multiple super accounts, insurance, salary sacrifice and retirement projections, among others. ...

ING improves OneAnswer platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... Pankhurst, head of retail platforms and employer super at ING Australia on the 2009 OneAnswer development program. "The Centrelink schedules and Capital Gains Tax calculator for example, have been in high demand from advisers from day one." Improvements ...

Investors want more Centrelink

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... growth may be important - but top of mind for many investors now is the fear that their age pension may be slashed by Centrelink, said Suncorp Financial Planning. David Carter, executive general manager of advice solutions at Suncorp, said planners have ...

Jobs, jobs, jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
... were able to keep our jobs last month, how many were still looking for work and how many started submitting forms to Centrelink. Financial markets expect the ABS to report that Australia's unemployment rate to rise to 5.9 per cent in July from 5.8 per ...