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ISA appoints retirement policy adviser

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Industry Super Australia has appointed a specialist retirement policy adviser. Phil Gallagher is a statistician and policy modeller specialising in retirement incomes and population ageing. He has overseen quantitative analysis of Commonwealth social ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... incomes system to be taken out of the budget and electoral cycles and aligned with the publication of the intergenerational report every five years, ideally with bi-partisan support," he said. Hockey said the age pension is the budget's biggest item ...

Retirement income sector keeps pace with population changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... sector are projected to reach $1 trillion by 2024, according to research by DEXX&R. In line with the Intergenerational Report's estimate that the proportion of Australians aged 65 and over will double in the next 10 years, DEXX&R's Market Projections ...

ALP outlines superannuation tax policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... establish a Council of Superannuation Custodians and align any future changes to super tax settings to the Intergenerational Report. These proposals will bring certainty for investors and stop ongoing speculation and tinkering with superannuation," a ...

Retirement income committee to launch in June

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... keynote speeches at the forum. This announcement follows the release of the Treasury's Tax White Paper and Intergenerational Report, which raise fundamental questions about retirement income, including superannuation tax treatment and structural changes ...

Super breaks $2trn on way to $9trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... of population data. "Based on population projections contained in the government's just released 2015 Intergenerational Report, even though the number of people aged 65 years or more will increase by 2.7 million, the number of people of working age will ...

Treasury opens discussion on tax reform

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... choices," the paper moots the idea of reducing superannuation concessions. It suggests that based on the Intergenerational Report, an increasing proportion of Australians will enter their retirement phase, where no tax is paid on earnings in super: "This ...

Defensive pension pots just won't last

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... consumed by the age of 84. This is significantly less than the average life expectancy forecast by the Intergenerational Report in 2054-55 of 95.1 years for men and 96.6 years for women. By contrast, under the most optimistic outcome in a defensive portfolio ...

Intergenerational Report shows need for financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The Treasury's Intergenerational Report highlights the importance of financial advice, according to the Financial Planning Association of Australia. Given that life expectancy at birth is expected to rise by four and three years for men and women respectively ...

IGR proves current welfare level is unsustainable: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
The results of the Treasury's Intergenerational Report prove that Australia's current level of social welfare cannot be sustained and that superannuation will play a key role in addressing the issue, the Financial Services Council (FSC) said. Reacting ...