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Central plank of Cooper Review is MySuper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... couple of decades ago. "However, balances will increase substantially in the period ahead of this, combined with demographic ageing, should help spur product development. Treasury estimates that post-retirement assets will more than triple in real terms ...

IFSA rebrands to the Financial Services Council

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... including advocating for a 'Big Australia', which involves capping wages and inflation and reducing the fiscal burden of an ageing population. As part of this strategy, the council will lobby for greater workplace participation rates for older workers. ...

UK green and ethical fund hit $16bn

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... world is changing fast and many of the issues targeted by green and ethical investment funds such as the need to tackle ageing populations, address the global power shortage and climate change are creating attractive business opportunities, which in ...

Govt unveils more super reforms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... [can] adjust to it." Commenting on the raise in SG age limit, Reynolds said it is a crucial move to ensure Australia's ageing population would be better equipped to support its retirement needs. "As an ageing population that's only going to increase ...

From ratchet to resilient: an economy in bloom

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... more consumers to save. "Given the findings of the Intergenerational Report (IGR), you can't manage an economy with an ageing population without increasing [personal] savings seriously... specially because I think healthcare costs are going to escalate ...

NZ Super appoints Elementum Advisors

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... 2003, is designed to reduce the tax burden on future New Zealand taxpayers of the cost of New Zealand superannuation. An ageing population means the cost of providing New Zealand superannuation is expected to double over the next 50 years. To prepare ...

IGR signals tax and health reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
Fiscal pressures due to Australia's ageing population outlined in the latest Intergenerational Report strengthen the case for health reform, tax reform, national productivity growth targets and the removal of the compulsory retirement age. Yesterday ...

Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... focus on medium-term or long-term risks of economies deteriorating. What's worse, long-term risks such as the needs of the ageing population became medium-term risks after retirement savings dived alongside markets, he said. To navigate through the fragile ...

Governments could cause next GFC

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
... these extraordinary fiscal deficits, government debt has started to climb at a dramatic pace and this is all happening when ageing populations and government deficits come closer and closer together," he said. Perpetual's head of investment market research ...

Computershare to challenge industry incumbents

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... with issuers managing their registers in-house, through third party administrators (TPAs) on proprietary systems or on ageing vendor systems. Angus said Computershare forecasts major changes in the way managed funds are administered that will result ...