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Climate change to impact financial systems

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... argues this is based on several factors, including the country's "carbon-intensive economy, lack of policy clarity and reliance on global capital markets." Risks include destabilisation by both "direct climate change impacts" and falling demand for carbon ...

GST increase would deliver $42 billion: FSC

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... taxes; abolition of state stamp duties; and a higher GST. FSC director of policy, Andrew Bragg, said Australia's heavy reliance on company and personal taxation must come to an end. "Including compensation for low income earners, a 15% GST with a broader ...

Over-reliant bank lending slows OECD economic growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
An over-reliance on bank lending poses risks to long-term growth in Australia, according a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The report said recent financial development shows further expansion of bank credit ...

China's surging funds management market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... frame for global investors especially given its restrictive tax structures for overseas domiciled investors and over reliance of the Australian Securities Market on resources stocks. Australia's market is, however, more diversified across asset classes ...

Super pool reducing Aussie reliance on foreign capital: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... commercial property," she said. The report also shows Australia's growing superannuation pool is reducing Australia's reliance on foreign capital and reducing both the risk and the cost of domestic investment. "While companies in other countries had ...

Super lump sum myth debunked

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... streams." Colonial First State executive general manager Linda Elkins said: "This analysis suggests that Australians' reliance on lump sums in super is an exaggeration and adds a new dimension to the debate about compelling Australians to take an income ...

Treasury opens discussion on tax reform

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... inform the tax policy ideas the Government will propose at that time. It makes particular emphasis on Australia's heavy reliance on income taxes, and how this will continue to rise due to the progressivity of the current income tax system. Crucially ...

APRA deputy chair criticises life insurance sales culture

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... "large amounts" of cover being provided without the requisite underwriting checks, poor data capture and management and a reliance on "anticipated future improvements in mortality experience". "The advent of questionable practices often has been driven ...

Intergenerational Report shows need for financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... Australians seek proper financial advice from an early age and use it to maximise their superannuation so they can reduce reliance on the Age Pension, the nation as a whole will be infinitely better off." According to Investment Trends research, only ...

Tax concession debate "simplistic": SMSF Association

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... that the TES measurements fail to account for the current or future savings to government created by reducing people's reliance on the Age Pension. "Excluding the future savings to Government expenditure on the Age Pension results in a myopic and overly ...