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Education drag hits super savings: GESB

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... for people to save throughout their working life, but still not have enough to live on in retirement. The older the population gets, the less able the government will be to plug the gap. "The government, financial providers and individuals must work ...

AMP signs MOU with China Life

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... the number of Chinese citizens aged 60 or over is expected to rise to more than 430 million, or 31 per cent of the population. This trend has significant implications for the aged care sector and other areas of social infrastructure, areas in which AMP ...

Retirement worries worse than job loss

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... were based on a survey of over 1,000 people. The sample was weighted to be nationally representative of Australia's population by gender, age and location. According to the research, paying the mortgage ranked third in the list of financial concerns ...

Years of living dangerously

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... couple of thousand more ($25,600 p.a.). Put another way, if the superannuation system stays as is, majority of the population will be at least $10,000 a year short of maintaining a comfortable standard of living, pegged at $38,000 a year. The solution? ...

Big tax reforms on way for super: Tsr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... unique superannuation system leaves us well placed, compared to other countries, to face the challenges of an ageing population. And I agree... it's important that we maintain incentives for Australians to save for their retirement through super." Despite ...

Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... intensified in recent years due to global warming, based on data going back since 1900 and adjusted for inflation, population density and wealth levels. More importantly, in times of catastrophic events, investors are much better off investing in insurance-linked ...

Back on the road again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... US$8,000 first homebuyers' tax credit program. Take this away and...pooped again. But way, way better than watching your population set up hippy communes in San Francisco - ala 1960s -- and tell them to be "sure to wear flowers in your hair." Government ...

Warning signs in consumer wealth report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... confirmed that financial planners and accountants mainly service the top-end, being the wealthiest 40 per cent of the population. These groups drive 72 per cent of the business of most financial planners. Even when planners are reaching their target ...

Arise Chindonesia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... exporter will drive their food industry that will help feed these three nations that already make up 40 per cent of world population. Indonesia accounts for 13 per cent of world coal exports, behind Australia's 32 per cent. Palm oil is a vegetable oil ...

Tax system should improve wellbeing: Henry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... tools to improve people's lives. These lessons are pushing the Tax Review to focus on the key themes of the ageing population, environmental degradation, managing the impacts of globalisation and technological change, improving how the Australian Federation ...