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Use super to help pay health costs: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
Superannuation contributions should be used to help pay spiralling health care costs, the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) said in a recent report. The CEDA report, Healthcare: Reform or Ration, said in the five decades between ...

Super changes ease political and financial uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... the Council of Superannuation Custodians and hope that this will serve to remove superannuation from the annual federal budget cycle and the political debate and allow an independent body, similar to the RBA to determine the appropriate policy setting ...

Big deal day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... official briefed on the speech. Obama will argue that fostering economic growth remains the best strategy to narrow a federal budget gap that has exceeded $1 trillion in each of the last four years". This calls for another...yawn -- a big one. For like ...

$18 billion super tax 'honey-pot' by 2020

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... billion worth of superannuation taxes by the year 2020, said the Financial Services Council's submission to upcoming Federal Budget. In its submission released yesterday the Financial Services Council (FSC) made 12 policy submissions to the 2013-14 federal ...

Back-off super: FSC missive to Canberra

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... explained. He also said that reducing tax concessions to superannuation will not be a salve for any holes in the Federal Budget. Instead, it just moves the problem decades into the future, Brogden said. The Financial Services Council represents Australia's ...

Dignity Super's main aim, ASFA reminds politicians

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... (ASFA) yesterday said that any change to superannuation tax concessions - that the Government made in the upcoming Federal Budget - need to be measured against the core objective of superannuation: to provide dignity in retirement. The rules that cover ...

Falling interest rates undermine seniors' confidence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... lowest level ever, while Victoria and Western Australia also slipped. "Optimism hit rock bottom after the May 2012 Federal Budget but made a reasonable comeback over the following months," said Allianz Australia managing director, Niran Peiris. "However ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... Ordinaries index up 1.1 point at 4,592.9 points. Wall Street stocks slipped after more signs of tension emerged from federal budget talks in Washington. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 74.73 points, or 0.56 per cent, to 13,170.72. The Standard ...

Ex-Macq banker to head up Govt clean energy fund

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... technologies in Australia. It will make its own investment decisions and operate with little assistance from the Federal Budget, the CFEC said. The management team led by Yates will be in charge of acting on the board's investment decisions. He has 20 ...

Political punch trading greatest risk to US economy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... stronger growth than the last. The major problem facing the President-elect is just how to tackle the $1.1 trillion federal budget deficit and the looming spending cuts and tax hikes threatening to push the US back into recession. "These changes are ...