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New Government body to advance financial literacy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... Australia. Clitheroe will be joined on the board by former The Smith Family chief executive Elaine Henry and Australian Defence Force independent chair Air Commodore Robert Brown, both of which also sit on the board of the National Financial Literacy ...

Budget big picture: Surplus on radar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... welfare spending, the 17% increase in education spending, the 10% increase in health spending, and the 14% increase in defence spending. These expenditure increases account for 68% of the $72 billion uplift in projected outlays, slightly more than their ...

AMP Capital adds key social infrastructure asset

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... brownfield, social infrastructure PPP assets in Australia and New Zealand in sectors such as education, health, justice, defence, community housing, recreational facilities and transport. It now owns 13 assets worth more than $650 million.

Beige Book report delivers known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... moderate to modest growth, a tight/tightening labour market but modest growth in wages and inflation. To quote former US Defence Secretary Donald Henry Rumsfeld, "these are known knowns." Aside from the reference to the disruptions caused by the hurricanes ...

TAL intensifies mental health strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... expert to help establish best practice management of post-traumatic stress disorder. TAL's work with Neil Greenberg, a defence mental health professor at King's College London aims to better understand PTSD, as well as facilitate claims management workshops ...

Insurance counteracting ageing population risks

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
... other hand, has only a fractional share (5%) of the ageing wallet - but it has the potential to be an effective line of defence against ageing risks these countries are facing, the report said. Swiss Re head life and health products Russell Higginbotham ...

Government debt on its way to $606bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... security expenditure growing $35 billion over the next four years, annual health expenditure growing $9 billion and annual defence spending growing $5 billion. At least the cost of the bureaucracy and general government will contract from $27 billion ...

Perpetual Global Share Fund strengthens defence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Perpetual has upped the cash weighting in its Global Share Fund and decreased its exposure to cyclical stocks on concerns the end of the economic cycle is approaching. The fund has increased its cash allocation to 18%, up from a five-and-a-half year ...

SMSF Association appoints independent director

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
Chief financial officer at Defence Health, Cath Mulcare, has been appointed as an independent board director for the SMSF Association. Mulcare has been the chief financial officer at Defence Health since September 2011, and has worked across a range ...

Advisers eye opportunity in identity theft protection

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... me to see some sort of regulatory interest, and possibly action, in this area." "A digit PIN is often the only line of defence stopping hackers accessing this information, and given the extent to which people tend to choose similar PINs and passwords ...