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New TAL scheme offers discounts for healthy living

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... smaller and more manageable in order to achieve the desired outcome. Making significant change can be challenging, but broken down into small achievable steps is empowering," McConville said. "We believe TAL Health Sense puts the client at the centre ...

Minimum withdrawal rates act as default: CSIRO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... released research suggests people with smaller balances are actually likely to draw down at a slightly higher rate. "We've broken down the data in to larger and smaller balances and you see pretty similar patterns," Reeson said. "So what we're seeing ...

ISA launches super tax plan

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... as an incentive to lock money away in super," Morrison said. "Are the costs of providing flexibility to individuals with broken work patterns too high? Are the tax incentives that help people attain an adequate standard of living unsustainable for the ...

AFA recommends SG monthly threshold removal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... threshold, the AFA also recommended introducing lifetime super contribution caps for low income earners "and those with broken careers due to caring responsibilities." The submission also suggested retaining the low income super contribution (LISC) scheme ...

Women own less than 40% of super assets: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... more likely to have superannuation than women, and also that men on average have a higher account balance. In many cases, broken work patterns and lower average wages still impede on women's ability to save for retirement," Vamos said. Average superannuation ...

NAB and FPA back super in PPL

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... NAB submission said. The FPA said the government should extend caps on concessional contributions to enable workers with broken employment patterns to maximise their superannuation account balances. Other major proposals from NAB include simplifying ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... income, age and dependents, and suggests that the median Australian has life cover that only meets 60% of their actual needs. Broken down further, Rice Warner estimated the amount of cover needed for a typical middle-income Australian family with two ...

Lost super costs young Aussies thousands

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... to a loss of over $14,000 at retirement in today's dollars. Australians who are facing more vulnerable circumstances and broken work patterns may endure multiple losses throughout their working life. "It is important to know what you are entitled to ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... and the Stock Exchange - would be on holiday for all of this week. This means Greece would be broke, or more broke, or broken. But Greece had been broke from the day it was accepted into the Eurozone. Greece joined the single currency area on 1 January ...

Tax reform cannot be deferred any longer: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... million capital cap." ASFA is also recommending concessional contribution caps be changed in a way that individuals with broken work patterns are able to make sufficient contributions. In other tax news the Insurance Council of Australia welcomed the ...