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Morrison protects homes from Age Pension means test

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... $747,000 ($922,000) * Couple homeowners $823,000 ($1.15 million) * Couple non-homeowners $1.023 million ($1.298 million). TAPER RATE (by how much the pension is reduced) * Increases from $1.50 to $3 per $1000 of assets over the test-free threshold.

Seniors weigh in on super tax discussion

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... to CPI only. "However there is more work that would need to be done on the impact of other suggested changes to pension taper rates and eligibility. "What is clear is that Australia needs a new retirement incomes system, based on careful planning, good ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... show when the Shanghai composite index started to take-off - that was in October last year, the month the Fed completed its taper and the month (24 October) when China's president Xi Jinping's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) dream became ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... might be some anxiety, increasing jitters but panic it is not (yet?). Still, it makes for a good sound byte. Take that "taper tantrum" Bernanke. Would history repeat? Would financial markets ultimately get over the "patient panic" like they did the "tape ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... level in 12 years (2003) and represents a 7.6% climb this year to date, a 21% jump a month before the completion of the Fed taper in October last year and a 35.7% surged three months before Standard & Poor's took away one-A from the US of A's AAA credit ...

Say when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... answer to the "lift-off" question that everyone has been waiting for - and speculating on -- since the Fed completed its QE taper back in October last year. There was plenty of information in the transcript of US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen's ...

Mind over matter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... this was again due to Grexit and contagion -- except for the jump to 26.3 in mid-October last year ahead of the Fed's final taper decision that was confirmed and announced following the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) 28-29 October meeting. Perhaps ...

Bullish sentiment at 4-year high, expect zero return in six months

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... downs, it appears to they've been able to wean Wall Street off of QE successfully. Since the Fed's announcement of the final taper on 29 October, the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq have appreciated by 2.8% and the Dow by 4.0%; the VIX index has fallen ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... different. The October survey was taken in the month when global uncertainties seemed to have all come at once - Fed's final taper, China slowdown, eurozone triple dip, geo-politics, geo-health, falling iron ore and gold prices, increased financial market ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher after Wall Street rose on upbeat US consumer confidence. The US consumer confidence index has leapt from 89.0 in September to 94.5 in October, giving US equities a solid boost overnight. The positive sentiment ...

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Super Members Council appoints inaugural chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |   12:50PM
The Super Members Council (SMC) will soon welcome Ann Sherry as its first chair.

Generation Development Group to take over Lonsec

KARREN VERGARA  |   12:33PM
Lonsec Holdings will have a new parent company as Generation Development Group (GDG) is due to acquire the remaining stake in the research and ratings house.

Equip Super names chief experience officer

KARREN VERGARA  |   12:32PM
Equip Super appointed its inaugural chief experience officer (CXO), previously at legalsuper.

APRA warns entities on adequacy of backup systems

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |   12:34PM
APRA has reminded its regulated entities of the need to remain vigilant when it comes to cyber resilience, identifying the use of data backups as a weak spot.

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