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Hockey signals pension age might climb to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... affordable. In a major speech he presented this week to the 'The Global Age of Responsibility, Reinventing Bretton Woods Conference,' in Washington, the Treasurer said the number of retirees in Australia will double over the next few decades to nearly ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... Macfarlane and Santos vice president eastern Australia James Baulderstone are scheduled to speak at the APPEA's oil and gas conference which continues for the third of its four-day run. In equities news, Treasury Wine Estates chief executive Michael ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... Association performance of construction index (PCI), also for March, is also due out. Meanwhile, the APPEA oil and gas conference continues for the second of its four-day run. West Australian Premier Colin Barnett, Woodside chairman Michael Chaney, Woodside ...

Government takes aim at corporation tax

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Steven Ciobo. Speaking at the Financial Services Council (FSC) Life Insurance Conference in Sydney yesterday, Ciobo said he was 'wary' about where Australia's financial services industry is heading. "We've spent ...

Industry fund claims experience worse than retail: PWC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... funds, PriceWaterhouseCoopers partner Barry Rafe said. Speaking at the Financial Services Council 2014 Life Insurance Conference, Rafe said that "in industry funds, the claims experience has deteriorated lately." He said that "master trusts have self-selected ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... The ECB kept its key refinancing rate unchanged at 0.25% and... more "forward guidance". In his post-meeting press conference, ECB President Mario Draghi assured you, I and Irene (one more time) that, "We talked about lower interest rates, a lower deposit ...

Incoming NAB CEO to look at "legacy issues"

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... certainly never going to do anything that competes with NAB and I am a passionate advocate for it (the bank)." At the same conference Thorburn commented on the bank's commitment to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms, saying that he was not ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... "European markets were directionless today, in anticipation of the European Central Bank rate announcement and press conference tomorrow," said markets analyst Jasper Lawler at CMC Markets UK. The euro dipped to $US1.3759 from $US1.3793 late on Tuesday ...

Considerable time to eliminate considerable slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... thing". Not last night. Janet talked about "considerable slack" in the labour market when she spoke before the national conference on community reinvestment in Chicago and that, "The scars from the Great Recession remain, and reaching our goals will ...

SPAA and Macquarie to investigate SMSFs

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) and Macquarie will investigate SMSF business models in a newly launched survey that is targeting financial advisers, accountants, administrators and stockbrokers. The findings of the survey will ...