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HESTA pushes for gig worker super entitlements

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2023
... savings. ISA chief executive Bernie Dean said gig workers, who are integral to various sectors, including food delivery and aged care, deserve their share in the universal saving system. "Being a gig worker shouldn't mean you miss out on the opportunity ...

Lumiant, Invest Blue build digital advice platform

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2023
... capabilities following its recent purchase of an app that helps financial advisers monitor clients' health, longevity and aged care risks that could impact retirement. Prior to the acquisition, it closed a seed funding round totaling $5.2 million ...

What you need to know about the 2023-24 budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... were several winners in this year's budget, including economically disadvantaged women, small businesses and the aged care sector. For financial advisers, the budget promised several measures that will make it easier and cheaper to run their businesses ...

How this budget was built

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... time until a superannuation-like levy is proposed. Payments to seniors, which in the main are Age Pension payments and aged care expenditures, are meanwhile growing strongly but only by 7% each, which pretty much matches the inflation rate. Against this ...

Federal budget 2023: Winners and losers

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... fortnight as the result of a change which will increase the age limit of the youngest eligible child from eight to 14. Aged care workers: The government will make good on a recommendation from the Fair Work Commission to increase award wages of over ...

Budget delivers surplus, with a catch

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... budget faces persistent structural spending pressures from fast-growing payment areas including in defence, health, aged care, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and interest payments. To address these challenges, the government said it's ...

Lumiant acquires longevity app

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023
Lumiant has acquired an app that helps financial advisers monitor clients' health, longevity and aged care risks that could impact retirement. Chicago-based Genivity, deemed a health analysis and longevity optimiser (HALO), will integrate into Lumiant's ...

Budget all about responsible economic management: Chalmers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 14 APR 2023
... trillion dollars in Liberal debt that we inherited from our predecessors," he said. "That is growing faster than the NDIS, aged care, healthcare and national defence. So, we do take those challenges seriously." Chalmers explained that in the near term ...

Cut spending and raise taxes, super preservation age: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... of the federal budget, which also include counting more of the family home in the aged pension assets and residential aged care means tests. With Australia on course for 25 straight years of deficit, estimated to total about $50 billion a year by 2030 ...

Drawdown reforms boosts post-retirement phase

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2023
... year, increasing to $38 billion more per annum by 2050, which then provides a significant relief for the Age Pension, aged care and health. Briggs said that a reformed retirement system that is designed around the needs of retirees will provide them ...