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Retirement phase top issue for super in FSI

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... In its 140 page submission the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) put the emphasis on limiting expenditure on the Age Pension, saying the aim should be to halve the number of Australians dependent on the Age Pension by 2050. ASFA ...

ASFA asks FSI for clear targets to measure super success

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the Murray Inquiry to set clear objectives against which the success of superannuation's role in reducing the Age Pension burden on public coffers can be measured. In its latest ...

China's winning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2014
... central and local governments are spending down this year's budgets slowed in July" with the country's total fiscal expenditure slowing to 9.6% in the year to July from 26.1% in the previous month. But the PBOC is not letting up. According to Forbes ...

Integrate next-gen insurance policies into NDIS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... government could approach $9 billion over five years if you factored in welfare payment and publicly funded health care expenditure savings. But for life insurance products to play this role she said there would need to be a willingness to redesign policy ...

FEATURE: Guiding the way to aged care

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... dramatically in the future," Treasurer Joe Hockey said in April. Today, aged care is the eight largest part of government expenditure. "To put it in the simplest terms, we are spending money we don't have," Hockey said. The changes to the aged care rules ...

ASFA calls for lifetime contribution caps

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... that the system is successfully raising retirement incomes, increasing national savings and decreasing government expenditure on the Age Pension. According to the report, by 2026, a person who retires at the Age Pension qualifying age with an average ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Italy's GDP by 1.3% in the first year. This would allow Italy to comply with EU's rules requiring members to limit their expenditure to 3% of GDP. The increase allows the government a better GDP-deficit ratio and a higher limit of expenditure. In 2012 ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... valuable export, is below $US97 a tonne - its lowest level since 2012. The release of weaker than expected capital expenditure numbers during morning trade had little impact on the market, CMC Markets chief analyst Ric Spooner said. That was probably ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... was 13 points lower at 5,524. In economic news on Thursday, the bureau of statistics releases private new capital expenditure and expected expenditure data for the March quarter. The Housing Industry Association releases its new home sales figures for ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... situation, there is a risk that disinflationary expectations take hold... This may then cause households and firms to defer expenditure in a classic deflationary cycle - especially when monetary policy is at the effective lower bound and so cannot steer ...