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Australian Ethical joins animal welfare initiative

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Australian Ethical has joined other institutional investors as part of the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare to encourage global food companies to meet a certain standard. The benchmark conducts an annual report ranking global food companies ...

Australian Ethical awards $300,000 in grants

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... were awarded to 18 charities and social businesses that are working on a number of different causes, including animal welfare, conservation, women's empowerment, renewable energy, addressing homelessness and alleviating poverty. "Our company Charter ...

Turnbull backs financial start-ups

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... be taking advantage of its strong financial position globally. "We simply will not remain a high-wage, generous social welfare net economy unless we are able to seize these opportunities and they are in abundance," Turnbull said. "Now this requires obviously ...

Seniors weigh in on national tax discussion

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... changes to Australia's tax and superannuation system would need to regard the country's "already highly-progressive tax and welfare arrangements and ensure that they take account of investment decisions people have already made in good faith on the basis ...

Australia's coming $32bn SIB sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
When Patrick McClure AO released his report into the review of Australia's $150 billion welfare system in February, one important aspect that seems to have escaped the gaze of commentators was its advocacy of social impact bonds (SIB). SIBs, also sometimes ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... its objectives. There is general policy consensus in Canberra that superannuation has three policy objectives: to reduce welfare and pension costs, provide a better standard of living in retirement for individuals and build a pool of national savings. ...

IGR proves current welfare level is unsustainable: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The results of the Treasury's Intergenerational Report prove that Australia's current level of social welfare cannot be sustained and that superannuation will play a key role in addressing the issue, the Financial Services Council (FSC) said. Reacting ...

Philanthropic fund establishments return to pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2015
... assets annually, well in excess of the minimum 5% required, with the average PAF distributing around $250,000 each year. Welfare dominates as the most popular cause for distributions with a 28% share in 2012 and an estimated total of $500m since PAFs ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... is the fundamental product of superannuation, not high account balances for their own sake that can encourage tax and welfare entitlement arbitraging. Murray says if these things are implemented Australian savers could end up with 25-40% more in retirement ...

Expand PLS to all age pensioners: TAI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... the provision of PLS loans to wealthy Australians." Moreover, they said several State governments also allow selected welfare recipients to borrow against their home equity to cover home extensions or defer land taxes plus in the US 26 States have similar ...