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Zenith recommends Challenger Care Annuity

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... free; not included when calculating income tested aged care fees, and not included by Centrelink when calculating social security benefits. "The combination of a low risk fixed income stream for life with a Deductible which can be used to reducing the ...

Urbanisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security." However, this is nothing new. Li had been championing this urbanization idea since May this year when he addressed the EU ...

Big infrastructure underscores China growth

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... 50-plus advisers on the trip, one of the more interesting projects was a citizen ID card program that amalgamates social security and financial information. Another product that also complements urbanisation, and the increasing interconnectivity provided ...

Macquarie invests in mobile apps for advisers/brokers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... facts and figures financial advisers require on a daily basis, including current taxation, superannuation and social security rates and thresholds for this financial year. The re-launched app has already received 10,000 downloads. These two apps join ...

Chinese pension fund awards global mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... global investment managers awarded mandates in July to help manage the 869bn yuan ($A132bn) fund. China's National Social Security Fund (NSSF) announced the appointments yesterday, which included AMP Capital for listed real-estate management. JPMorgan ...

Cross-border super collaboration on way

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... "So for an Australian fund wanting to invest into China, there is a lot that can be learnt from China's National Social Security Fund (NSSF), which is the biggest investor in both [the] Chinese equity and primary equity market." Wang's comments followed ...

Rainmaker appoints new head of technical services

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... services. With over 19 years experience in the financial services industry as a technical taxation, superannuation and social security expert, university lecturer and financial planner, Proctor will head up Financial Standard's CPD Program. Proctor joins ...

US ceiling raised but underlying reasons remain

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... publicised reasons for this mammoth amount of debt (the GFC, various wars and the bank bailout), the issues of social security and minimum wage need to be held accountable, said John Abernethy, chief investment officer, Clime. "In our view it is the ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... cannot pay its bills. You worry about consumer spending? That will drop when government workers are laid off and/or social security payments don't get paid. Having rid of the fog, Wall Street's left with some clarity. And it's clear that earnings are ...

Life insurance gap down 33pc

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... caution that Australians are still significantly underinsured, costing $140 million per year as publically-funded social security benefits paid by the government and nine times that amount in disability underinsurance. Rice recommended the removal of ...