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Budget for the wealthy: Labor

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... say the Coalition's budget is "out of touch", as a Labor Budget wouldn't slash school funding, deliver tax cuts for millionaires or raise taxes for working Australians. He added the Budget gives tax breaks to wealthy investors and property speculators ...

Wealth transfer poses advice business risk

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... relationships throughout the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history. New GlobalData research shows while millionaires represent just 0.2% of the world's population, they hold over 30% of the world's investable assets. On top of that, 35% ...

Advisers halt HNW slide

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... $1.57 trillion in October 2014. "The property boom of recent years certainly played a significant role in minting millionaires," said Guiamatsia. "Over 60,000 Australian HNWs indicate the main source of their fortune to be profits made from their property ...

Super reforms to hurt retirees

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
The Treasury's proposed changes to the Age Pension in the 2015 Budget were targeted at "liquid millionaires" claiming government assistance, but some industry figures say the new rules will hit the most vulnerable retirees over the long-term. According ...

New HNWIs demand unbundled services

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
Australia minted nearly 45,000 new millionaires in 2014 but only a handful of them are seeking financial advice, according to Investment Trends' High Net Worth (HNW) Investor Report. Based on a survey of 3,115 Australian millionaires - holding a collective ...

Millionaire investors swell in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... the largest growth in the past five years, Investment Trends' latest report revealed. Australia minted 43,500 new millionaires over 2014 and the high net worth (HNW) investor population went from 400,000 in November 2013 to 443,500 in October 2014, the ...

Labor to oppose rise in pension age

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... in and out of the workforce to start and raise a family. "How can this Prime Minister think it's OK to pay multi-millionaires $50,000 that they don't need, and yet rob the retirement savings of over two million women who earn less than that in a whole ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Financial services to make 100,000 millionaires by 2017

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
A booming financial services industry will account for an explosion in the number of millionaires over the next four years, according to a report by WealthInsight. By 2017, the research and data provider said there will be an estimated 402,000 millionaires ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... higher than the Chinese government's 7.0% target. Believe Mr. Edwards if you like for he has turned billionaires into millionaires (or thousandners?). Those who took his advice would have sold the Chinese yuan when he warned, "Expect Yuan Devaluation ...