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Giving through PAFs back to pre-crisis level

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... Australians $507 and Victorians $498, with Queenslanders the least generous donating $367 in the year to 30 June 2012. Welfare continued to be the best supported cause, receiving 28% of donations from PAFs, while health and research saw the strongest ...

FSC bids to lead retirement income debate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... National Retirement Outcomes Policy will integrate the design of the superannuation system with government policy on ageing, welfare, health and tax. It will consider the efficiency of tax concessions at the contribution, earnings and drawdown phases ...

Integrate next-gen insurance policies into NDIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... services consulting revealed the net savings to government could approach $9 billion over five years if you factored in welfare payment and publicly funded health care expenditure savings. But for life insurance products to play this role she said there ...

Korean military fund puts $40m in Aussie infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... only non-Australian stakeholder in The Infrastructure Fund, MMAA is also the only non-pension fund. It functions as a welfare-orient credit union, providing savings services and funding for education, healthcare, and disaster relief to 170,000 military ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... can't please everyone. While it's not surprising that certain sectors of the Australian society are howling in protest - welfare recipients, pensioners, hypochondriacs, public servants, etc. - the sober act is that it's not as tough as the "blood, sweat ...

Government establishes superannuation fund for the Australian Defence Force (ADF)

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... military superannuation schemes. The government will work with ex-service organisations such as the RSL, Defence Force Welfare Association and Alliance of Defence Service Organisations to ensure the successful introduction of the new superannuation arrangements ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... workforce that can meet head-on the emerging competition in Asia. If we all contribute now, we will build a sustainable welfare system that helps the most disadvantaged and supports the most vulnerable. If we all contribute now, we will build the biggest ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... You're the last person to eat, the last to sleep, the first up in the morning. You spend all the time thinking about the welfare of your people." These values, learnt in the army, have stood Bell in good stead as a manager in the business world. For ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... National Commission of Audit that includes the deficit "levy" (not tax) and the "end of the age of entitlement" cuts to welfare for I cannot be sure for sure how many of 'em recommendations I would get to read printed on the Budget papers. Relatively ...

Industry asks for long-term, comprehensive approach to Age Pension

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... recommended the government to consider leveraging the life insurance sector to meet "the ballooning costs of disability welfare in Australia to reduce the increasing pressure on the Federal Budget," Brogden said. "Life insurance can reduce the long-term ...