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China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... January-July period was 383 billion (60.22 billion U.S. dollars), leaving plenty room for expansionary policies to increase the budget deficit to 2.3 percent of GDP for 2015, up from last year's target of 2.1 percent." So too about China's debt. According ...

Super funds need to compete globally

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Australian superannuation funds should not be worrying about their local counterparts and be more concerned with what international pension funds are doing as competition for assets continues to grow. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... peers are struggling to get down to. So as we compare apples with apples, 'The Economist' table on "Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates" predicts Australia's budget deficit to GDP to be 2.4% by year-end. This compares with 2.6% ...

Give first home buyers access to super: CEDA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... significant with an increasing number of people living in poverty in retirement and unsustainable fiscal pressure on the Federal Budget." A report by CEDA in April found that as many as 1.5 million Australians live in poverty and the elderly, particularly ...

Red tape being reduced for super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
The federal government is preparing to enact some of its 2015 budget promises that will likely reduce red tape for superannuation funds. Draft legislation announced on Friday aims to allow the Commissioner of Taxation to pay super amounts directly to ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... tremendously rewarding. "It's a really good way to re-think the traditional ways of doing things. You don't have the kind of budget you might have with hundreds of thousands of members delivering admin fees. So you have to be really clever how you go ...

Bankers see ASIC user pays model as burden

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... funding certainty, this could be achieved by the Federal Government adopting a multi-year funding model from its existing budget," he proposed. "Any adoption of an industry funding model must be consistent with the services provided, rather than based ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... for the future because inventories will have to be replenish], in federal government spending [also good for the federal budget], and in residential fixed investment". In short, the US economy's firing on nearly all cylinders. The Fed could go ahead ...

Retirees still cautious about another GFC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... in life. Less than half said they were currently using a financial adviser and two out of five were not using a formal budget to manage their household expenses. The report also found seniors underestimate their life expectancies by up to seven years ...

FSC calls for 12% super by 2022

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... with adequate savings. "The Government's commitment to no negative changes to super tax, and not touching super in the May Budget has been a welcome reprieve after years of tinkering." She also called on the Government and the Opposition to commit to ...