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Hockey signals pension age might climb to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... on raising the pension age have been criticised largely along party lines, what isn't disputed is that age pension expenditure has increased at 11% pa during the past decade and is on track to reach $60 billion a year within a decade. Responding to this ...

Better than good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
Up, up, markets are up. Over the past 24 hours, like any other 24 hours, financial markets were treated to a mix of stats/surveys/news that were either better, worse or in line with their expectations. We've gotten all possible combinations and permutations ...

Industry funds spend millions on advertising

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
Industry superannuation funds are spending millions of dollars a year on advertising, with some funds' expenditure even exceeding that spent by banks on their own superannuation advertising campaigns, figures released by Nielsen show. However, overall ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... business would continue to suffer by its plan capacity reduction. But let's not stop at QAN. The "Private New Capital Expenditure and Expected Expenditure, Australia, Dec 2013" released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) yesterday also point ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... points at 5,422. In local economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases private new capital expenditure and expected expenditure data for the December quarter. In equities news, Qantas, the Seven Group, Nine Entertainment, Gindalbie ...

Australian operations boost GBST

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... management sales grew in Australia and the United Kingdom but competition also increased, Lake said. Product development expenditure had also resulted in lower margins. "The strength of our Australian operations and annuity licence income, which provides ...

US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... after President Obama refused to negotiate over Speaker John Boehner's proposed amendments that would undo previous expenditure cuts to US military pensions. The bill then passed the Democrat controlled Senate 67 to 31 despite efforts by the Tea Party ...

CSIRO to study super spending habits

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... solving focus of the Monash CSIRO research collaboration. Research over the next year will include: retirees lifecycle expenditure patterns, managing liquidity risk for superannuation investment, new and innovative superannuation products and behaviour ...

ASFA calls for clarity on retirement income review

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has called on the government to provide a clear timetable and terms of reference for its review of retirement income stream regulations, including the tax treatment of deferred lifetime annuities ...

Challenger Diversified Property Group reports earnings growth

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... the fall to investment property fair value adjustments of $9 million for the period, including incentives, capital expenditure and straight-lining. Normalised earnings per unit (EPU) increased 4% to 11.1 cents and distribution per unit (DPU) increased ...