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Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... Disability Scheme, $500 million each for dental health and regional health care, and $3.7 billion for a restructuring of aged care. Helping to pay for some of this is a trimming back of superannuation concessions for people earning $300,000 pa although ...

Insurance bonds back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... minds working in the industry, the Forum looked at some of the benefits of insurance bonds, including estate planning, aged care and tax. Higgins said on many occasions insurance bonds are a sound estate planning vehicle as they distribute tax-free on ...

EQT wins Austock Life mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... menu. "It is very important to many of our investors - especially those using the Imputation Bond's estate planning and aged care strategies - to have stability and reliability of the underlying investments," said Ross Higgins, managing director of Austock ...

Govt overhauls aged care

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
The introduction of means testing for aged care by the Federal Government is set to reshape the entire industry, with flow-on effects expected for advice. In the biggest revamp of the national aged care system in 15 years, the Gillard Government said ...

Retirement funding needs aged care inclusion

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
As budget cuts to public spending loom, wealth providers are warning the cost of aged care needs to be factored into retirement planning. "The likelihood of care and its associated cost needs to be recognised at the beginning of retirement, not when ...

Pre-retiree client strategies fall short: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... "With increasing focus on retirees, planners also intend to provide more advice on retiree specific needs, especially aged care," said Peker. "In 2011, 78% of planners had provided advice around aged care to a fifth of their pre-retiree and retiree clients. ...

Beware the traps in aged care advice

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
Discussing the differences between retirement income and aged care strategies, speaker Crissy DeManuele, technical manager for Strategy Steps told of the technical traps involved in this area for advisers during the Financial Standard Technical Services ...

Colley departs OnePath for SPAA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... ANZ, since 2001 where his responsibilities included the provision of technical advice on super strategies, Centrelink, aged care and taxation to planners, key accounts and users of OnePath products. He also held senior roles at the tax office and as ...

Matrix adds new member firm

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... of wealth accumulation, superannuation, pre-retirement and retirement planning, personal and business life insurance, aged care and estate planning. The principal financial planner in the practice is Sunhee Hres who has been in the financial services ...

Investors eye aged care infrastructure

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Foreign and domestic investors are circling the aged care infrastructure industry after this weeks final report on the aged care sector from the Productivity Commission gave way to mergers and acquisitions opportunities for domestic and foreign investment. ...