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Australian pension market still global leader

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... pension asset pool is the world's fifth largest but is the second fastest growing, having increased 9.1% pa over the last decade. Only Mexico, with growth of 9.2% pa, shaded it, though its US$177 billion asset pool is minuscule by Australian standards. ...

ISA slams super opt out proposal

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
Lower paid workers, mostly women and young people, would be left tens of thousands of dollars worse off in retirement if they were to opt out of Australia's superannuation system, Industry Super Australia (ISA) has said. According to News Corp reports ...

Blue Sky lifts profits

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... alternative assets will be the largest investment class in Australia by 2021," Sowerby said. "Our strong and consistent decade-long track record of growth and investment performance across all our funds places us in a very competitive position. "Blue ...

Financial services to be a greater part of "economic narrative"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Jim Chalmers said greater policy emphasis needs to be placed on financial services' role in the Australian economy. Speaking at the Value Alliance Annual Reception in Sydney, Chalmers referred ...

Zurich launches LIF support initiative

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
Zurich Financial Services Australia is launching a life insurance framework (LIF) support package for financial advisers, via a national roadshow. The 'Blueprints for the Future' comprise five pillars of LIF support, designed to help advisers position ...

Death tax would save budget billions: Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
The pre-budget cloud of ideas continues to thicken with Community Council for Australia chair Tim Costello advocating the federal government create an estate duty or death tax. Costello and the Council believe such a tax would generate more than $5 ...

IRESS creates new senior product role

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... all clients," Walsh said. "Aaron brings deep product and commercial expertise to this new role. He has spent more than a decade at IRESS in a range of client-facing, business and product roles including four years as executive general manager, product ...

Jobs at risk from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... which predicted that up to 25% of full-time insurance positions will be consolidated or reduced over a period of about a decade. "Automation will probably change the vast majority of occupations, and up to 45% of all work activities in the United States ...

Healthcare needs flagged as investment opportunity

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
If not clued in already, superannuation funds have been given another hint that addressing Australia's growing aged care and healthcare industries will become a priority. Australian Industry Group chief economist Julie Toth said healthcare was the sleeping ...

ISA says 15pct tax rebate no good

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... and achieve policy stability. Ideally changes should be agreed on a bipartisan basis and not need to be revisited for a decade or more. "With an estimated 35% of all super tax concessions flowing to the top 10% of savers there is scope to retarget concessions ...