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Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... suggesting alcohol consumption has "rebounded" in the country. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently released a report that said Australia's alcohol consumption was about 5% higher than the OECD average. Members of ...

Industry responds to Grattan report

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... sector over the last decade, it has dragged down the aggregate performance of Australia's super system to below that of the OECD average," he said. Arguing that super outcomes are best-delivered by funds that "return all profits to members," he emphasised ...

Hockey sounds tax alarm bells

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... Australia was too heavily reliant on personal income tax and company income tax as a source of revenue - more so than any other OECD nation other than Denmark. He said it was particularly important to consider that in an increasingly globalised marketplace ...

Australia's coming $32bn SIB sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... represent part of that welfare expenditure that could be saved. This amount is used to fund the SIB coupon payments. The OECD predicts social impact bonds will be a $650 billion investment sector by 2025 and within Australia it has been predicted they ...

Australia and Switzerland agree tax crackdown

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... agreed to take another step in the fight against evasion and automatically exchange information with Switzerland based on the OECD's common reporting standard (CRS)." Australia and Switzerland will also explore opportunities to improve provision of financial ...

Demography must drive reform

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... This year, the Tax White Paper will investigate how effective this policy has been. Although Australia moved ahead of most OECD nations to implement super in 1992, the contribution rate is not yet high enough to provide fully-funded retirement incomes. ...

AMP Capital awarded $250m global infrastructure mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015
... million). The strategy has a target size of US$2 billion ($2.48 billion), with new inflows used to acquire additional assets in OECD countries in sectors such as transport, communication and utilities. Glenn Hubert, one of OPB's private markets' managing ...

Industry braces for majority independent directors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... and scrupulously overseen by trustee boards made up of employer and employee representatives. This model, common across the OECD, has delivered superior returns on average to members over the past decade. The representative trustee model has been at ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014
... to 4,227.68 points, and Frankfurt's DAX 30 rose 0.66 per cent to 9,377.41 points. Draghi's comments followed a call by the OECD to overcome its reluctance and undertake quantitative easing given the very weak state of the eurozone economy and the risk ...

AMP creates global infra platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... seek to grow its assets to US$2 billion. Inflows into the Global Infrastructure Fund will be used to acquire new assets in OECD countries in sectors such as transport, communications, and utilities, adding to its existing European holdings, which include ...