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Culture isn't everything: ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... ASIC veteran said he was also concerned with companies who focus on short-term financial results "to the exclusion of anything else", noting APRA's prudential report into the Commonwealth Bank documented the dangers of using such a lens to evaluate performance. ...

More Australians retire with big mortgages

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... that off as quickly as possible and enter retirement debt free. That could have in part been because people didn't have anything else to fall back on. They didn't have other assets." Wood warned that the Netherlands has a similar retirement system Australia's ...

SG below 10% fails super objective

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... between 15% and 20%, the researcher said Australia's predicament ensured the SG could be less than 15%, but it insisted anything below 10% would not be enough. "A higher level will provide a more comfortable lifestyle for a greater number of retirees. ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
"Anything that could go wrong will go wrong." - Murphy's law. It seems like it for us, Australians all. The latest (although dated) GDP growth figures showed that domestic economic growth slowed to its slowest pace in a decade (in the midst of the ...

Super figures point to NSW victory

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
If superannuation performance figures mean anything in the world of rugby league, the Blues will win the Origin opener tonight. Just hours before the Blues and Maroons begin the annual battle for rugby league supremacy at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium ...

Australians retire too wealthy: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... before retirement." He argued that touting the ASFA standard as the comfortable standard is misleading because it implies anything less than that is uncomfortable. As evidence, Daley produced surveys of retirees who reported their own perceptions of ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
If there's anything that's 100% certain, it is that the European Central Bank (ECB) will keep current interest rate settings unchanged - repo at 0.00%; marginal lending facility at 0.25%; deposit facility at -0.40%. Although, given the mounting ...

Australians demand unpaid super laws: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... said this is the only fix that will stop millions of Australians being robbed of their super entitlements every year. "Anything less is a band-aid solution that won't fix the problem and will see millions of Australians end up worse off at retirement." ...

Chief economist update: Countdown to T-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... a bull market - up 19.6% - in spite of the heavy sell-off over the past few days. But as Murphy's Law dictates, "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong". Not only could it go wrong but it could escalate. This is because if the US and Chinese trade ...

Super, life risk face election test

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... changes to capital gains tax -will mean yet more uncertainty for investors. "Whereas the Coalition isn't really doing anything," he says. However the problem isn't isolated to one side of the political divide. Griffiths says he's seen more SMSFs close ...