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Jeremy Cooper explores the inconvenient truth of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... Speaking at the Financial Services Council Retirement Income Products Conference in Sydney, Cooper said that even Paul Keating understood this, given that he agreed the system was not designed for people who were going to live over 80. "The system he ...

Tracing super back to 1517

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
According to Dundas Global Investors senior partner Alan McFarlane, the true architect of superannuation wasn't Paul Keating - it was Martin Luther. While he admitted it was a long bow to draw, McFarlane told delegates at the Australian Institute of ...

Moody's downgraded and upgraded China's ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... considerable scope for policy to adapt to support the economy, and a largely closed capital account." Now why do I hear Ronan Keating singing in my head? "You say it best when you say nothing at all".

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... have done without it," he said. The decision to reverse the abolition of negative gearing for property investors - Hawke/Keating, 1987 In 1985, then-treasurer Paul Keating abolished negative gearing for all future property investors. It was intended ...

CareSuper announces new deputy chair

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... CareSuper's achievements since that date. We would like to thank him for his dedication and contribution to the fund." Claire Keating was also appointed to the CareSuper board in January. Keating, who serves as a director of multiple financial organisations ...

Capital Group reappoints former exec

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
... Department of Foreign Affairs and trade, including heading the international division of PM&C under Prime Minister Paul Keating and was international advisor to Prime Minister John Howard. He served as Australia's ambassador to the United States from ...

"We were wrong about super": FSC chair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... as it supports what is now Australia's largest industry." Lloyd advocated raising the super guarantee to the original Keating-era target of 15%, noting how long it took to get to 9%. "And we're still a long way away from 12%," he added. The final panelist ...

Govt announces superannuation's objective

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016
... currently exists, the proposed objective simply formalises the objective that has always been inferred from reasons the Keating government in 1992 outlined when it introduced the Superannuation Guarantee legislation: to supplement the age pension to ...

$1m does not make you rich, Australians say

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... half of those surveyed believing the government should do more to help middle class families. "Whether it be the Hawke/Keating super reforms of the 80s and 90s, or the 2006 Howard-era Future Fund, both sides of politics have made substantial contributions ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... financial system was never going to be as significant as the reviews headed by Sir Keith Campbell and Stan Wallis. Paul Keating pushed deregulation through after the Campbell Inquiry (1981) and Peter Costello created the "twin peaks" regulators of APRA ...