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Ending super gender gap needs collective approach

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... to the Senate inquiry into 'Economic security for women in retirement' show that the industry is asking to approach the problem from multiple angles, as opposed to designing a single solution. "We need to acknowledge this issue and embrace the complex ...

Economist says innovation one small part of growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL) generally supported the innovation statement but said it did not address the problem of the existing gap in later stage venture capital. "AVCAL has long advocated that a significant step to remedy this would ...

Pessimistic investment horizon for super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... are finding is our capacity to return to normal conditions is strained because we've wrongly described the cause of the problem," Austin said. Frontier Advisors' director of consulting Fiona Trafford-Walker told the keynote session that trust was holding ...

The GFC is still among us: Varoufakis

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... forms. But it is not going away," he said. Varoufakis argued that the challenges the Eurozone is facing are a result of "a problem of the architecture of the Eurozone." "Europeans like to think that the European Union is the magnificent construction ...

And then there's gonna be five

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
It didn't happen overnight, but it will happen. It may be a bit of an anti-climax but it's now official... the Chinese yuan will formally join the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound in the International Monetary Fund's basket ...

CIPRs not the entire answer for retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... space - but there's a lot people sitting in accumulation that I don't know people are thinking about how to solve their problem." QSuper has about 36,000 pension members and every year they get about 6000 new pension members. Of the 6000 members that ...

PROFILE: NAB Financial Planning general manager Paul Fog

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
It says something about the sweeping remit of financial advice that Paul Fog credits both commercial property law and playing water polo for Australia as steering him towards the profession. From his perspective, though, both are equally important. ...

Treasurer calls for planners to enter China

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... inflation tax or bracket creep pushes people on to higher taxes as their incomes increase over time. "It is a growing problem that impacts on workforce participation. Next year, those on an average wage in Australia will be in the second highest tax ...

Super guarantee charge bundled by red tape repeals

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
The federal government's Red Tape Repeal Day on Thursday included amendments to the superannuation guarantee charge (SGC) but the proposed legislation has been rolled over to parliament's final sitting weeks for the year. Under the proposed changes ...

The importance of Asian trade agreements

GREG O'NEILL, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LA TROBE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015