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Funds return 11% in May

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
The SelectingSuper Workplace rolling 12 month default option index increased marginally during May to return 11.3% compared to 11.1% at end April. At end December it was 16.1%. Three year super fund average annual returns are 8.8% pa, five year average ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the strongest signal yet that cuts to the Age Pension will headline a raft of belt-tightening measures in the upcoming Budget. In a speech at Sydney's Doltone House yesterday, the Treasurer said that Australia's spending ...

FSC lobbies against super "7 year gap"

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
The Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden has asked for superannuation access age to be lifted, to close the "seven year gap" with the pension age. "There is a 7 year gap between the age you can access your superannuation and ...

Protection needed if pension age increased: AIST

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) said that an increase in the pension age should be accompanied by measures to protect older Australians who are unable to work longer. The statement follows a speech by Treasurer Joe Hockey ...

Hockey signals pension age might climb to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has issued veiled warnings that welfare spending and age pension structures will need to be changed say by raising the pension age to make them affordable. In a major speech he presented this week to the 'The Global Age of Responsibility ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower following Wall Street's lead with US markets giving up their early session gains. At 0645 AEDT on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was down 26 points at 5,344. Locally, no major economic ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
The verdict is in, Crimeans have decided... what now? Surprise of surprises Virginia! Exit polls following Sunday's Crimean referendum showed that 93% of voters voted to secede from Ukraine and return to Russia with love. Ukraine's new government, Europe ...

FEATURE: The cost of cash

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... government decision making [as a result of monetary policy being tightened in the US] then they will expect it to simply wash through the system. I think that inflation will go up but rates will stay on hold," he says. Add this rather dreary outlook ...