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Morrison sharpens blockchain, AI agenda

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... these technologies, he said. The initiatives will also support Cooperative Research Centre projects, PhD scholarships and school-related learning to boost the knowledge and skills needed for AI and machine learning. About $700,000 will be used to fund ...

Labor responds to 'unfair' Budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
The Labor Party said pensioners and working Australians will be most disadvantaged by this year's Budget proposals. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the Liberal Government's budget is "unfair" and favours big business. In a series of Tweets, Shorten ...

Government to ban default life insurance in super

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... might be a young person getting a summer job, putting a couple of grand in their super and then they go back to uni or school and it gets eroded. It's a good thing in that way," he said. "But on the other hand, removing the opt-out ignores that there ...

Government names AFCA board members

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... Wein Mediation. He was previously the co-director of House Homewares and an adjunct professor in RMIT University's school of business management. Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer said she was "delighted to today announce ...

Yarra Capital executive joins AUI board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... fund. He has a bachelor of commerce and a bachelor of arts from Monash University. He earned his MBA from Columbia Business School, New York. Before moving to the USA, he worked at Boston Consulting Group, doing quantitative and financial analysis and ...

Default options safeguard retirement savings: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
... need to consider whether the choice architecture of superannuation can cope," CEPAR chief investigator at UNSW Business School, Professor Hazel Bateman said. The report states: "Defaults may be a good alternative to address poor decision-making, provided ...

FASEA announces leadership transition

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... Professor of Finance and Financial Planning in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics at Griffith Business School. "It is essential as we move into the implementation phase of FASEA's work to continue to execute the critical planning, consultations ...

How much do you need to feel financially free?

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... million for a financial transformation but labourers say they need more at $1.3 million - double over the past year. High school graduates also thought they needed more money (about $1 million) as compared to grads or postgrads ($942,000).

Industry fund launches lifecycle default option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
A $7 billion industry superannuation fund is launching a default option that will automatically adjust with members' age. The Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund's LifetimeOne option, to be launched in May, aims to give members better ...

Labor's amended cash dividend refunds fall short: SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... fair to spend $8 billion a year on a tax loophole that mainly benefits millionaires who don't pay income tax - not when school standards are falling and hospital waiting lists are growing longer." Bowen forecasts the proposed reform will save $55.7 billion ...