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Retiree confidence in super on the rise

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
Retirees' confidence in superannuation as a source of income is on the rise, according to a new report by National Seniors Australia and Challenger. The Second Seniors Sentiment Index found that retirees' confidence in super rose by more than 17% between ...

Pension rule changes to benefit 740,000

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... changed, in March 2013. This announcement brings the deeming rates in line with available financial returns." National Seniors Australia, which lobbied hard for the last deeming rate cut in March 2013 after four years of no change and more recently during ...

Bank levy upsets senior lobby

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
Lobby group National Seniors Australia have criticised the government's plan to put a 0.05% levy on bank deposits in 2016, saying it will force pensioners into riskier investment alternatives. National Seniors Australia chief executive Michael O'Neill ...

Financial literacy in retirement a human rights issue: AHRC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... prepare for retirement by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). The release coincided with a call from National Seniors Australia, the consumer lobby for older Australians, for a coordinated financial literacy awareness campaign for older Australians. ...

Self-education cap to harm senior workers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... deductions for professional self-education could put professionals over 50 years old in a situation of disadvantage, National Seniors Australia said. The organisation said that if the legislation comes into force on July 1, 2014, it would impose an additional ...

Super election infighting intensifies

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... its hands off super have come from all corners of the financial services industry from consumer groups such as National Seniors Australia to top executives like Commonwealth Bank boss Ian Narev. Now Simon Crean, sacked from the cabinet for his role in ...

Politicians move 'super' goal posts at their peril

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... retirement, according to Michael Hutton, head of wealth management at HLB Mann Judd Sydney. However, recent research by National Seniors Australia has reveals that more than half of Australians aged over 45 (who follow superannuation) believe the rules ...

Tough turkey for retirees this Christmas

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... an early Christmas present to Australia's mortgage payers, retirees are in for a tougher festive period, says National Seniors chief executive Michael O'Neill. The Reserve Bank (RBA) cut the base rate to 3% yesterday, the lowest it has been since the ...

Older Australians delaying retirement

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... or conservative investments listed the GFC or volatile markets and the need to preserve capital as the reason. National Seniors chief executive, Michael O'Neill, said the findings were consistent with the stories his organisation hears every day. "Unfortunately ...

PM rejects lifting retirement age to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... years shy of the 70 year threshold. "We are not revisiting those decisions," she said. But chief executive of the National Seniors lobby group, Mike O'Neil, was more forthcoming is his outright rejection of any proposal to lift the retirement age higher. ...

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