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Aged care concerns top Challenger advice list

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... Challenger's choice to develop its CarePlus product recently. Monash University professor Deborah Ralston told an Australian Centre for Financial Studies' (ACFS) Funding Australia's Future forum last week that the aged care sector has been through a ...

Imputation's economic effects unclear: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... anywhere near as much as they would like to about the implications of dividend imputation forming economic policy. Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) research director, Professor Kevin Davis, reiterated this message at the Funding Australia's ...

Retirement incomes become industry focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... further link the facets of retirement with a suitable pension system without more investment. Speaking at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies' (ACFS) Funding Australia's Future forum in Sydney yesterday, Vamos said super's current structure does ...

Mercer rates Aussie super B+

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... second. Both countries received an A-grade rating and are the only two to do so in the index's seven year history. Australian Centre for Financial Studies executive director, Amy Auster, said the Index continues to be used by policy makers and researchers ...

FSI panellist challenges ASIC register sale

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... proposed an alternative model for the sale of ASIC's Business Registers. Davis, who is the research director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, has released a discussion paper, titled Privatising Public Information: The Sale of the ASIC ...

Government should super seed low income earners

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... making it highly affordable in its own right," the ISA statement said. According to a report released by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) last week, the average superannuation ...

ACFS director steps down

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
After six years as an executive director at the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS), Professor Deborah Ralston is stepping down from her role. In overseeing the continuing development of the centre, Ralston initiated projects such as the ...

Raising Preservation Age could be problematic

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... significant number of vulnerable older Australians to access their own super savings." Research conducted by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies and AIST in 2014 found that up to 40% of older Australians currently do not get to choose when they ...

Australia lagging in Asia-Pacific financial relationships

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... one-third of Australia's financial relationships. This is one of the findings in a Finsia-sponsored report by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies, which also says Australia's exports of financial services are larger than the value of tourism ...

Experts urge govt to do more to boost infra investment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... attractive to private investors. That was one of the conclusions at a recent roundtable discussion hosted by the Australian Centre for Financial Studies (ACFS) and attended by 15 finance experts including academics, economists, credit analysts and senior ...