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Super's purpose under further scrutiny

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... be enshrined in federal legislation is becoming clear as more ideas are floated about how to best use the savings pool. Western Australia Senator Chris Back has proposed that super could be used by university graduates to pay off Higher Education Loan ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... growth while East Asia is due to see a 27% contraction. The developed world, meanwhile, will not be able to keep pace. Western Europe should see little change at all while North America, the fastest grower among developed regions, grows its population ...

Public sector retirees angry over income exemption cuts

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... Moore said about 46,000 pensioners will see their allowance reduced by an average of $2,150 a year or $82.70 a fortnight. Western Australian Senator Rachel Siewert also said in June that 65% of those on a defined benefit income will not be affected. ...

New role for IOOF executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... Consultum and Lonsdale. He stayed on to assist with the integration of Shadforth Financial Group, incorporating Plan B, and Western Pacific over the past 12 months. An IOOF spokesperson said Farrell oversaw a significant improvement of IOOF's advice ...

AFA winner highlights retirement fears

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... the process. "This is a new phenomenon we're working with," Reed continued. "If you think about it, two thirds of the Western population is probably the oldest in history. Not too long ago you didn't have to worry about these issues because you'd hit ...

IOOF division launches philanthropy services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... The enhancement of the philanthropic services follows a recent QUT study that compared Australian giving habits to other Western nations and indicated Australia is well behind the US, UK and New Zealand. "Too few advisers are aware that because philanthropy ...

SMSFs could own Kidman Station

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... It represents 2.5% of Australia's total agricultural land. It is spread across Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia and is home to 185,000 cattle. At 101,000 square kilometres, it is larger than Ireland and almost half the size of ...

Whitehelm Capital acquires 49% stake in GE business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... retain a 50.1% stake in the business. It generates steam and electricity and was commissioned in January 2014 in Collie, Western Australia. It has a contractual arrangement with South32 Limited's Worsley Refinery. "While many managers have been focusing ...

Pension funds globally face solvency issues

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... that "will last longer than most of you in the room will live," the emerging markets are investing at double the pace of western countries. He said this over-investment is creating mass excess capacity in the world economy which is one of the reasons ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... alternative asset requires a different culture and a different mindset," Sowerby says. Originally from Warren, a small town in western New South Wales, it made sense after growing up on his parents' cotton farm for Sowerby to study Agricultural Science. ...