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Budget reforms exacerbate risks for Gen L: Asteron

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2006
Financial planning group Asteron is commissioning a study on what it says is the biggest gap in the recent Budget - how Gen-L who are already in retirement will outlive their superannutaion savings. Asteron head of technical services sales and marketing ...

ACT govt slashes SG

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2006
In its 2006-07 Budget, the ACT Government has announced it will reduce its superannuation guarantee level to 9 per cent from 1 July 2006 in a bid to reel in the expected 700 per cent increase in super costs over the next 30 years. Up until now all employees ...

Pillar to get $4.5 million IT upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
... $4.5 million IT hardware and data storage upgrade. The development initiative was announced in yesterday's NSW Government Budget. Pillar is wholly owned by the NSW Government. In its Budget statements, the NSW Government announced that the development ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open weaker, pushed down by losses on Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was 81 points lower at 5054. On the day the Reserve Bank of Australia holds its monthly ...

MERs out of date and disclosure still an ordeal: Westbrook

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2006
... certainly not at the same rate as in 2005-06." Westbrook noted the raft of opportunities opened up by the recent Federal Budget and environmental changes, but signalled some factors impeding the industry. Notably, disclosure. He told attendees who he ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2006
... (reported by the ABS last week) will further lower housing affordability which is already near record lows. While the May Budget income tax cuts should provide some offset, it remains to be seen whether the extra funds in taxpayers pockets is sufficient ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2006
... the day the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases April retail sales and building approvals while the Victorian state budget is released. On the equities front, St George holds a shareholder meeting while Telstra's Phil Burgess speaks in Sydney. NEW ...

VFMC bears teething pains to woo top talent

... managers, Bone said "VFMC has a fiduciary responsibility to its clients to maximise investment returns for a given risk budget, and to achieve this we need to remain at arm's length in assessing and hiring best in class fund managers, wherever they are ...

Double-dipping super contributions potential windfall

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2006
... marginal tax rate of 48.5 per cent. "Salary sacrificing can give you a tax saving as high as 33.5 per cent and with the Budget's proposed rules will allow for that benefit to be taken from your super fund tax free after 60. In the interim, by putting ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
... biggest monthly fall in confidence since September 2005 indicates that the massive income tax cuts announced in the May Budget failed to eased consumer anxiety due to higher borrowing costs - from the RBA's recent rate hike - and the persistently high ...