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Budget forces advisers to rethink tax, retirement strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... promise not to make changes to superannuation. However, the 2014 budget brings significant changes to social security, aged care and the Age Pension indexation. "Advisers will have to do some strategy and some planning with their younger advisers in ...

Budget a 'missed opportunity': ISA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... future retirees. "One of the biggest long-term fiscal challenges is increasing pension costs combined with increasing aged care and health costs. Due to an ageing population, over the next 50 years it is expected that these three areas share of GDP will ...

Super needs a radical new solution to longevity: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... Commonwealth insurance scheme for the 80 to 100s with a calibrated, precise product which guarantees people income support, aged care and aged accommodation." "It's a classic model for an insurance scheme, but it's got to be done in the 80 to 100 cohort ...

Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... schools, Hockey said. Pointing out that only 14% of Australians over the age of 65 receive no government payments and that aged care is currently the eighth largest part of government expenditure, Hockey said: "The policies must be changed, either now ...

EQT to buy ANZ Trustees for $150m

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... other areas of mutual interest such as the development of solutions to meet the needs of ANZ clients who need access to aged care services. ANZ said the gain from the sale is expected to be invested in a range of specific growth and efficiency initiatives ...

Murray inquiry initial submissions due today

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... organisation highlighted in its submission that "Australia faces a sharply increasing demand for acute health care and aged care." "Our view is that without public policy changes demographic developments will adversely affect society's ability to finance ...

Wealth management sector key to Australian growth: Deloitte

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... pockets identified by Deloitte, those associated with wealth management include retirement living and leisure, residential aged care, reskilling the ageing workforce, and health. "With the combination of the world getting older and wealth in our region ...

Young clients also looking for aged care advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
Clients in their mid-thirties tend to seek advice in aged care and estate planning, especially when they have little children to look after. JBS Financial Strategists director Jenny Brown told Financial Standard about a young couple concerned about ...

Providers not meeting demand for aged care products

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
Product providers are being slow at providing advisers with tools adapted to the new aged care legislation coming in on July 2014. "For lots of advisers specialised in aged care, there are not enough tools and all the work around calculations is pretty ...

Aged care likely to cost more after July 1

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
Aged care is likely to get more expensive from July 1, 2014, with the introduction of legislation that will calculate fees through assets and income, rather than income alone. "Each case is different and you need to look at the individual circumstances ...