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Your Future, Your Super on APRA to-do list

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... strategies to protect the interests of depositors, policy holders and fund members." Byres added that APRA is a forward-looking safety regulator and its main priority is to maintain a financial system that is resilient and able to support the Australian ...

WFH arrangements need planning: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... organisations to communicate about the most appropriate and effective working models. "First and foremost, we must acknowledge that safety and wellbeing must be the first priorities as well as complying with relevant rules and regulations," she said. ...

Super funds back COVID-19 preventative drug

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021
... viruses, including the COVID-19 and rhinovirus," Demaison said. "This is an important milestone as we are on track to initiate safety human trials in Australia by end of March 2021, and onwards to making our treatment available to the public." Ena Respiratory ...

Confusion over retirement income objectives

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... living standards in retirement is not "building wealth per se or facilitating estate planning". It is about providing a safety net so that older Australians achieve a minimum standard of living in retirement and avoid living in poverty. The concept of ...

New approach needed for Age Pension: RIR

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... that rent reach this goal. The long-awaited Retirement Income Review (RIR) acknowledges the Age Pension as providing a safety net for those who do not have the means to create their own minimum standard of living in retirement and secondly as a buffer ...

Fund managers' ESG beef

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... criteria' - this criteria attempts to prevent future zootonic (originating from animals) pandemics by assessing worker safety, food safety, animal welfare and antibiotic stewardship. Many of the high risk companies on the index are based in China. However ...

Budget commitment to aged care not good enough

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... further investment set to be announced following the final recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety in February next year. "This brings the total to more than 180,000 places, three times the number of home care packages ...

Budget boosts female participation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... engineering and mathematics (STEM). The government will also create jobs, encourage entrepreneurialism, and ensure the safety of women at work and at home. "The 2020 Women's Economic Security Statement will create more opportunities and choices for ...

Frydenberg bets on infrastructure for recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... infrastructure projects support a further 40,000 jobs." Over the next two years, Frydenberg will allocate $2 billion to the Road Safety Program. "Funding for these shovel ready projects will be provided on a use it or lose it basis. If a state drags ...

Fintechs receive JobMaker funding boost

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... digital economy, including through the $1.67 billion investment in the 2020 Cyber Security Strategy and investments in online safety," he said.