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Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the strongest signal yet that cuts to the Age Pension will headline a raft of belt-tightening measures in the upcoming Budget. In a speech at Sydney's Doltone House yesterday, the Treasurer said that Australia's spending ...

Dalton Nicol Reid wins $40m Intrust mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
Intrust Super has awarded a $40m mandate to Australian equities fund manager, Dalton Nicol Reid. Intrust is a boutique $1.6 billion industry super fund based in Queensland for the hospitality sector with 130,000 members and 10,000 employers. The mandate ...

Singapore lifts CPF rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... Generation plan, ie the 500,000 Singaporeans estimated to be aged 65 or more, they will receive up to 70% subsidies for hospital outpatient health care costs, $1200 pa in disability care subsidies, and significant health insurance premium subsidies. ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... business. Shares in Ramsay Health Care gained $2.85, or 6.4 per cent, to $47.41, after the country's largest private hospital operator reported a 14 per cent rise in net profit. However, the market's heavyweight mining sector spoilt the party. BHP Billiton ...

Mercer wins Mercy Super admin gig

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... provide member administration services. Mercy Super - which is the super fund primarily for employees of Brisbane's Mater Hospital and other Mercy Partners employees - has 12,000 members and funds under management of $900 million, making it Mercer's ...

Lift aged pension to 70: Productivity Commission

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
... area would reduce fiscal pressures significantly," the report said. Illustrating the point, the PC report revealed that hospital costs per annum per person for someone older than 85 years are six time that for the average 50 year old. Showing the timidity ...

Infrastructure key in battle against SMSF exodus

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
Industry super funds can get an advantage over self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) by using their scale to exploit the "illiquidity premium" that exists in unlisted markets such as infrastructure, according to Brett Himbury, chief executive of ...

NSW govt to reconsider Pillar privatisation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... Avoiding these costs would allow the Government to focus on putting its limited funds into critical road, school and hospital projects across NSW," Baird said. Baird was eager to stress that a sale would not affect current clients - the biggest of which ...

Trophy infrastructure assets too expensive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
Large, marquee infrastructure assets seem over-priced in the face of the huge sums high profile institutions have paid in recent years, according to Towers Watson senior investment consultant Duncan Hale. Large global investors have raced to buy infrastructure ...

Super fund sells hospital to government

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
MTAA Super has sold its stake in Mildura Base Hospital (MBH) to the Victorian Government after 13 years of investment in the project. Since 2000, MDH has been under a public private partnership (PPP) arrangement, comprising the Victorian Government ...