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ASIC outlines enforcement efforts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... Hughes explained: "Directors breached their duties by authorising amendment to the constitution of Prime Retirement and Aged Care trust which enabled $33 million to be paid out of fund assets without member approval." In its update, ASIC said in 2019 ...

Financial advice in 2030: What does it look like?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... advice will emerge, with more product-agnostic advice services available than is currently the case. Services such as aged care advice and debt management advice will become more prominent." The number of advisers will have reduced and the average age ...

Ageing population poses budget threat

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... spending represents a projected greater demand for government programs that support older Australians - the Age pension, aged care and health. The report says there will be a steady increase towards the 2028 spending numbers. The old-age dependency ratio ...

Federal Budget: Industry responds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... - which is forecast to grow by 17% over the four years to 2022-23 - was tempered by tighter means-testing, but noted aged care costs would still strongly grow as the population ages.

In a nutshell: Federal Budget 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... announced. On the back of the Royal Commission, older Australians will benefit from $725 million in additional funding for aged care, including 10,000 new home care packages and greater financial support for residential care. A provision of $84 million ...

Record Budget spend for older Australians

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... older Australians. He said the money will go towards ensuring that older people can access higher-quality and safer aged care in 2019-20 and will be an increase of 50% from 2013-14. In his speech, the Treasurer said: "Australians deserve to age with ...

ABA moves to protect vulnerable customers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... support victims. Elder abuse can often include financial abuse and is likely to be a subject of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. All stakeholder groups as well as members of the general public are invited to make a submission to ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... quarter, due to increases in social benefits to households from continued government spending on disability, health and aged care services. "State and local government expenditure increased 1.1% driven by rises in non-employee expenses," it said. The ...

Super needs a clear objective: Cooper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... sees pressure put on Australia's healthcare services, pointing out 120,000 Australian's are on the waiting list for aged care places. He said cuts to hospital funding, a Medicare rebate freeze and cuts to school funding justified Labor's position. "In ...

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... around dealing with Centrelink, Age Pension eligibility, the National Disability Insurance Scheme, general healthcare, aged care and elder financial abuse. According to SCOA's 2018 annual report, the decline in membership substantially impacted its ...