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Actuaries Institute asks for FSI to be implemented

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... assertion that changes to the retirement income system cannot be undertaken without consideration of age pension costs, aged care costs and all sources of potential funding, including retirees' housing wealth. "The Institute strongly supports the Government's ...

CFS launches app for advisers

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... access to the latest rates and thresholds in relation to income tax, superannuation, income streams, social security and aged care." "It is part of CFS' commitment to provide advisers with tools and functionality that allows them to spend less time on ...

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 ...

Ageing Australia will impact budget for next decade

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... time over the next decade," Fraser said. "Some of the key drivers of this change have been in critical programs like aged care, disability care and help for the unemployed and sick." The budget problem around an ageing population is one also faced by ...

Super's purpose under further scrutiny

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... also increase super's cost to the government due forgone tax income, as well as place pressure on ballooning health and aged care costs. At a doorstop interview in Canberra yesterday, Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison reiterated his line that super is ...

AMP Capital appoints social infrastructure director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... Capital has promoted a member of its Community Infrastructure Fund's investment team to investment director, social and aged care infrastructure. Andrea McElhinney replaces Julie-Anne Mizzi, who will oversee the fund itself as head of social and aged ...

Challenger partners Financial Standard for 2016 Technical Services Forum

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
... Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum will cover retirement income strategies, SMSF income streams, aged care and other leading industry issues.

Modest rise in retirement living costs: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... respond to the ageing population by looking for ways for individuals to make greater private contributions to health and aged care," Vamos said. "Surveys of the population show that most persons who have not yet retired want to achieve at least the ASFA ...

Seniors react to Commission's retirement housing idea

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... It is a sense of place for older Australians. But it is what they will draw from in times of crisis or when they need aged care," O'Neill said. "Australians would fiercely resist any government that forced them to take up reverse mortgages in retirement." ...

Retirees should draw on home equity: Productivity Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... Australians housing preferences showed older Australians have a strong preference to 'age in place' and access in-home aged care services if they need them. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) recently released a paper that said ...