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Pension age to rise 70 by 2035

JAMES FERNYHOUGH AND AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
The government will raise the Age Pension eligibility age to 70 by 2035, Treasurer Joe Hockey has said in his 2014 budget speech. From 2017, the government will also index the Age Pension, as well as the Disability Support Pension, to inflation rather ...

Industry prepares for Abbott's first budget

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... preservation age, it is not expected that there will be significant changes to superannuation. At a doorstop interview Treasurer Joe Hockey echoed the PM's sentiments, saying: "It will be an easy budget to criticise but for the nation it will be an important ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
Were you not as surprised as I was? I bet you weren't Virginia, not even your uncle and his dog, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced that it was doing nothing - it left the official cash rate steady at 2.5%. While the RBA mostly stuck ...

NAB and FSC tight-lipped on Hockey meetings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... Financial Services Council (FSC) and National Australia Bank (NAB) have given little away about their involvement in Treasurer Joe Hockey's cash-for-meetings program reported by Fairfax this morning. Both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age this morning ...

Age Pension to rise to 70 by 2035

MARK SMITH, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has confirmed that he plans to raise the Age Pension eligibility age to 70 by 2035 in the upcoming Budget. Confirmation came in an interview with Alan Jones on 2GB radio in which the two men were discussing the Commission of Audit's ...

Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the strongest signal yet that cuts to the Age Pension will headline a raft of belt-tightening measures in the upcoming Budget. In a speech at Sydney's Doltone House yesterday, the Treasurer said that Australia's spending ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... another investigation is more than necessary. In November 2013 a joint release between Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey introduced us to the government's wide-ranging plans. The release said the Murray inquiry was intended to be a ...

Risk management top concern for sovereign wealth funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... management of data and improvement of operational efficiency. Commenting on the report's findings, State Street vice chairman Joe Antonellis said: "Official institutions are at different stages in terms of how and where they can invest, but it is clear ...

Think tank calls to end super tax concessions

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... flows to high income earners while low income earners receive virtually no benefit. The report comes in light of Treasurer Joe Hockey's recent comments that the government may consider raising the Age Pension eligibility age to 70 to offset a blow-out ...

FSC lobbies against super "7 year gap"

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... superannuation so you can get the majority of your pension when you reach 67," Brogden explained. He spoke following Treasurer Joe Hockey's citation of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) recommendation that more countries should consider raising ...