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ASFA slams Grattan as 'out of touch'

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... conditioning in summer and heating in winter." ASFA currently rates 'comfortable' retirement standard as an annual expenditure of $43,372 for a single and $59,619 for couples. According to ASFA, based on current settings and the increase in SG payments ...

Super tax receipts to reach $8bn: MYEFO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... by the parliament at $13.2 billion, including $12.5 billion in payment savings. "Sustained discipline to offset new expenditure and pass existing Budget repair measures is needed to consolidate the Budget and to lower government debt, particularly against ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... offset a 1.4% fall in manufacturing. A continued increase in core machinery orders suggests an improvement in capital expenditure going forward. However, this stat is notoriously volatile. Year-on-year, core orders dropped by 5.6%, a sharper decline ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... Australia capex The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on business investment shows actual private new capital expenditure drop by 4.0% in the September quarter. While worse than market expectations for a 2.5% fall, the third quarter figure ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... to a 2.3% rise in private residential investment. Household consumption was flat over the quarter and so was public expenditure declined as the 0.4% gain in government consumption was offset by the 0.7% decline in government investment. However, inflation ...

Super funds becoming retirement ready

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... collective saving trends are on track to deliver sufficient account balances capable of supporting this annual retirement expenditure. He said Cbus will still compete hard to maximise investment returns but these should be seen as an input to enabling ...

Ageing societies threaten to undermine global economy

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... as 35%. This obviously presents major issues for all ageing economies, particularly in regards to the rising fiscal expenditure on aged care. Jackson argued that the jury is effectively out on how to handle that issue. He argued tax hikes to increase ...

Infrastructure critical for super returns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
... 'investment-ready' infrastructure projects. "In an era of below-trend growth, Australia needs to find ways to increase capital expenditure; investors trading existing assets for short-term gain are doing little to increase either growth or productivity," ...

$1.6 million cap will not derail retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... sustaining this to female life expectancy of age 89," McCulloch said. "Investors can still pull a range of levers beyond expenditure to change these probabilities and improve their retirement lifestyle. These include more sophisticated investment strategies ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... and business investment fell by 0.1%, smaller than the initial estimate of a 0.4% contraction. Government capital expenditure growth was revised higher to 2.6% (from 2.3%) and added 0.1 percentage points to growth. Net exports subtracted 0.3 percentage ...