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Raise preservation age with some exceptions: FSC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... eligible for the Age Pension. "Australia experienced a revolution in the workplace which allowed the participation rate for women to increase from 45 per cent to 59 per cent over 30 years. We need a similar revolution in culture, policy and attitudes ...

Labor to oppose rise in pension age

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... budget - to do away with the low income superannuation contribution (LISC). "Two thirds of those hurt by this change were women - who had moved in and out of the workforce to start and raise a family. "How can this Prime Minister think it's OK to pay ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Safer sex? Women take less risk than men

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... where there is a material difference in their risk tolerance levels, in 84% of cases it is the man who is the risk taker. Women proved to be the main risk taker in just one in six couples. While this male/female difference is a global phenomenon, its ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... inherited a further $123 billion of deficits and debt rising to $667 billion. This challenge is not of our making, but we, the women and men behind me, accept responsibility to fix it. Doing nothing is not an option. The days of borrow and spend must ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... monetary policy. RBA assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion at a Women in Banking and Finance (WIBF) Business Series lunch in Sydney. In company news, News Corp has posted an 85 per cent drop ...

AIST reshuffles board, names new president

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... members," he said. Garcia said Wood had been a key driver of AIST's advocacy work on improving the retirement outcomes of women and low income workers during her term as president. "On behalf of the AIST board, I thank Cate for two years of dedicated ...

Think tank calls to end super tax concessions

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... intermittent workers, the self-employed or those who have long periods of time out of the workforce (e.g. predominately women who care for children/ageing parents). The paper suggests that the single pension be lifted from 30% of male total average weekly ...

Accountants beat planners in consumer confidence

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... estate were at the bottom. The research was conducted on the phone between April 8 and 10, 2014. Roy Morgan asked 644 men and women aged 14 and over to rate various professions very high, high, average, low or very low.

Younger Australians taking interest in superannuation

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... savings, the survey found the 30-49 year old group being the most concerned about planning for retirement. Both men and women in this age group rated their concern about having adequate funds for retirement at 73%, with people over 50 and 18-29 year ...