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Working women more likely to experience mental illness

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
Working women in Australia are up against it when it comes to mental health, research shows. Latest insights from SuperFriend show working women are much more likely to experience a mental health condition in their lifetime than their male counterparts. ...

New ASX governance principles target culture

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
The ASX and its new corporate governance principles unveiled overnight are taking a leaf out of Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's final recommendations. The fourth iteration of the ASX Corporate Governance Council's principles and recommendations ...

Super needs a clear objective: Cooper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... budgetary led as opposed to meeting the objective. "Even if your objective was as simple as supplementing and replacing (the Age Pension) it's very hard to see how these changes are actually assisting the outcome." Cooper's point came full circle later ...

SMSFA turns up the heat on franking debate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... it's grown from $500 million to whatever it is...$5-6 billion." He said it would eventually force more people onto the Age Pension, and said many would use the money they had built up to give to their children before reverting to the pension. "It ...

Actuaries Institute welcomes retirement income reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... members. In doing so, the institute said it strongly supports the notion that trustees should consider eligibility for the Age Pension when considering a member's income in retirement. Income needs and spending patterns in retirement can and do vary ...

Pay super fortnightly: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... demonstrates 70% of workers don't know this to be the case. ISA added that a person working full time on an average wage from the age of 20 until they were 67 stands to be $12,475 better off with fortnightly super contribution payments.

Retirement expert joins Milliman

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
... income-focused products that support the sector's new objective of providing income in retirement to substitute or supplement the Age Pension, it said. Former Milliman director of investment services Michael Armitage recently joined Mercer as head ...

Netflix-style shopping for funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
A former member of Macquarie's insto equities sales team is launching a new platform which ultimately aims to offer a Netflix-style shopping experience to financial advisers and clients. Forum 360 has been working for two years to build the prototype ...

ATO and TPB terminate tax agents

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
The registrations of tax agents QTR Accountants and Nicoh Group were terminated this week following a joint TPB and ATO investigation. The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) received 19 consumer complaints about the ...

Vale John Bogle

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
Vanguard founder John Bogle has passed away at the age of 89. The investment legend who introduced the first index mutual fund for investors, died today in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Vanguard chief executive Tim Buckley paid tribute to Bogle, and said ...