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Super tax back on Turnbull's agenda

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... we would not agree on taxation during retirement," Loane added. To the FSC, she continued, superannuation is not "a golden egg that people can raid during times of tax reform." Labor leader Bill Shorten also commented on the issue during the parliamentary ...

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 ...

Blue Sky scratches head lice from portfolio

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Blue Sky Venture Capital has exited a head lice treatment company after it entered into a $278 million commercial agreement with Indian-based Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. Blue Sky invested in Hatchtech in 2013 as part of a $12 million syndicate of Australian ...

NAB Prosper launches next month

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... actually educates the customer about all the levers they might pull around what they need to do to grow their retirement nest egg," Miller said. "If you change your retirement age from 55 to 65 it has a massive difference on the amount of money you need ...

Super and pension work together

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... report was to demystify the purpose of superannuation, and specifically to debunk the "myth" that a $1 million super nest egg is necessary to ensure a comfortable retirement. It argues that this idea places an overemphasis on superannuation balance sizes ...

Retiring 'comfortably may require 3 income building blocks: Legg Mason

PROMOTED BY LEGG MASON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... least $1.851 million to live comfortably, based on the ASFA retirement standard of $58,4442. For those with a more modest nest egg the simple way to retire comfortably would be to invest in higher income strategies, but for advisers meeting with risk-averse ...

Raising Preservation Age could be problematic

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
An industry group believes raising the superannuation Preservation Age would see the number of involuntary retirees blow out while a separate group says the idea needs to be flexible in allowing early super access. Following a Productivity Commission ...

Lift preservation age to 65, save $7bn annually

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
Following successive government plans to lift the age at which retirees can access their age pension, policymakers are pushing ahead with proposals to lift the Preservation Age. The Productivity Commission (PC) has just released research that they believe ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... flattered by the low figure a year ago when wages dropped by 4.1%. So why kill the goose that's starting to lay the golden egg? My sense is that the BOJ does not want to push the issue further lest Uncle Sam brings out the big guns and brand it a currency ...

ASIC looking to introduce civil laws to punish corporates

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... the country's wealthy, but everyday Australians, who might have no more than their house and their super and perhaps a nest egg," Medcraft said. "Of course, when [corporate] culture is poor and investors are inappropriately sold investments that become ...