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Super tax concessions cost more than they save: Greens

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
... superannuation saving are greater than the tax savings we will later recoup through lower pension costs. The paper, The costs of ageing in Australia, a crisis of cash or a crisis of confidence?, highlights what the Greens believe are contradictions in ...

Corporate governance the biggest risk: Aon

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2006
... ability to attract and retain key staff is a continuous concern for Australian executives. This factor, combined with an ageing workforce and with the emergence of stress as an occupational health and safety issue, will mean that workforce issues are ...

Know thy market: Deloitte

... address the needs of this market. The consulting firm has released a report titled "Wealth with wisdom - serving the needs of ageing consumers" which highlighted the issues concerning the emerging age 50-plus consumer market and how this narrow segment ...

Government moves to dampen super tax cut heat

... Minchin's comments were timely and cut right to the heart of the superannuation savings shortfall issue that will be facing the ageing population. "Senator Michin's comments advocating the removal of the superannuation contributions tax at the 2006 Young ...

Aon predicts 2006 risk issues

... ability to attract and retain key staff is a continuous concern for Australian executives. This factor, combined with an ageing workforce and with the emergence of stress as an occupational health and safety issue will mean that workforce issues are ...

Trust plan ahead for ageing population

... according to Trust's executive general manager financial services, Assyat David, will lie in the demographic shift of the ageing baby boomer population. She adds that this generation, unlike those before them are well known for their penchant for spending ...

Economic slow down on the agenda: Access Economics

... commodities driven currency. Other long term challenges highlighted by Richardson include the threat to economic activity of an ageing population and the performance of our biggest global exchange partner, the US, now facing what some might say is an ...

Under insurance still too high: Navigator

Despite an ageing population, susceptibility to health problems and record personal debt, too few primary breadwinners have sufficient insurance to protect their families. The result is that under insurance continues to be a real and potential problem ...

Funds management industry set for generational change

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2005
... which barely caused a ripple 25 years ago, managed funds have become an $840 billion behemoth in Australia. But with an ageing population whose superannuation makes up 78 per cent of funds under management and a financially sophisticated younger generation ...

Investors need to widen the asset horizon

... Doyle. Doyle also spoke about demographic changes and the implications for a shift in assets. In particularly he says an ageing baby boomer generation are the natural buyers of defensives asset classes, with bonds forecasted to grow from 9 per cent to ...