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Showing 11 - 20 of 105 results for "State governments"

Vanguard cuts fee on bond ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2023
... invests in a range of fixed interest products. This includes bonds issued by the Australian Commonwealth and state governments, as well as investment-grade bonds rated as BBB- or higher. At the end of February, VAF returned 2.47% p.a. on a 10-year period. ...

Advising an ageing population

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... saving plan for the long term. "Retirement is changing dramatically, and one big problem we've got is that state governments around the world, they're looking at state pensions and saying, 'oh well, we need people to work longer'," he said. ...

Affordable housing investments a win-win: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2022
... converted into social and affordable housing projects, and to encourage more public private partnerships with state governments. Commenting on the report, ISA deputy chief executive Matt Linden said: "Affordable housing investments can be a win-win for ...

FSC analyses super, advice developments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
... Standard, some funds like the Australian Retirement Trust have already taken the initiative to partner with state governments, possibly indicative of future collaborative investment opportunities between parties. The FSC commented: "Co-investment with ...

Systemic disadvantages create retirement insecurity: HESTA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022
... will only go so far in its support for the application of UNDRIP principles. "We are calling on federal and state governments to create legislation aligned with UNDRIP that will provide investors certainty about the level of human rights-based risk at ...

End of the road for Dollarmites

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
Commonwealth Bank has ditched its 90-year-old Dollarmites program after the state governments' banning of school banking schemes. The New South Wales government is the latest to jump on board and ban bank-run marketing schemes in classrooms after ...

Wayne Swan to chair Cbus

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... public life - in particular my six years as Treasurer - to work with members, employers, unions, and federal and state governments." Swan will take over from Bracks in January 2022. Bracks has been on the board of Cbus since 2009. "Wayne will be a champion ...

Financial services market skyrockets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
... in the overall market. "The huge injection of hundreds of billions of dollars of stimulus by the federal and state governments to support businesses and families forced into financial distress by the measures used to fight the COVID-19 virus has flowed ...

Delta to impact real estate market: Analysis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
... BuyersBuyers said Australia's elimination approach to COVID-19 simply won't be able to continue. The federal and state governments have agreed to a four-stage process to open up and live with COVID-19, and the final step arrives when more than 80% of ...

Maths an unpopular subject with high schoolers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2021
... professor Keith Devlin. Actuaries Institute said it will develop a policy position statement and press federal and state governments to review public policy.