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Frydenberg makes big promises for small business

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... migration and assumes Australia's needs will be unchanged. "This is despite the increasing cost to support our ageing population with healthcare and pensions in retirement and the contribution young skilled migrants make to meeting those costs." Additionally ...

Consumers confused by general, personal advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... in their clients' best interests." ASIC indicated it expects the need for financial advice to grow due to the aging population in Australia. Chester said: "ASIC is seeing increased sales of complex financial products under general advice models - so ...

Perpetual raising $440m for credit trust

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... income by Michael Korber. "The new Perpetual Credit Income Trust is coming at a time when Australia's retirement age population is growing and looking to meet their income needs in ways diversified beyond their traditional sources of investment income ...

Financial concerns drive women to online investing

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... investing online is testament to wanting a financially secure future. "The twofold increase in the female online investor population over the last five years shows that more women are building their wealth and moving towards an independently secured ...

Choice outweighs balance for women

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... many ways, it's therefore no surprise that older women are "sadly the fastest growing demographic" among the homeless population in Australia. According to Homelessness Australia statistics, there were more than 116,400 people experiencing homelessness ...

Australia in effective recession: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... only 0.4% in Q4. It's a huge slice of the economy at almost 60% of GDP, but it has stalled. "If you remove the population growth in Australia - of about 0.4% - from the headline GDP figure - of 0.2% seasonally adjusted in Q4 of 2018 - it shows growth ...

30% Club expands target

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... advocacy," Wakefield Evans said. "The community at large expects the composition of boards to reflect the broader Australian population. I believe the time is right to look beyond ASX 200 companies to also include the small cap companies sector." As ...

AXA IM acquires three Sydney hotels

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... term investment performance of the Sydney Olympic Park hotels due to the forecast economic, residential and worker population growth in western Sydney, coupled with a growing calendar of events that are held in the park annually," AXA said in a statement. ...

Rich families stingier with charities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... charities Overall, 60% of Australians donated to a charity in calendar year 2018. The percentage of the Australian population that gives to charity has been on a declined since 2015 when 66.2% of people made a donation. Meanwhile, in the last three years ...

Super needs a clear objective: Cooper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... "structural problem" with its budget, highlighting Cooper's point. "It's highlighted by the fact that we have an ageing population," Thistlethwaite said. He added the population ageing sees pressure put on Australia's healthcare services, pointing out ...