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Super delivers for the masses: Challenger

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... Superannuation Guarantee payments; paying SG on parental leave; and extending SG to the self-employed and gig economy workers are some solutions that could help fix the system.

AMP loses mandate to AustralianSuper

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... Australia Post has selected AustralianSuper as its new default super fund provider following pressure from the Communications Workers Union (CWU), the representative of postal, telecommunications and information technology workers, to dump AMP. CWU wrote ...

Record number of tax evasion reports

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... suspected under reporting or about the cash economy - for example, businesses demanding cash only from customers or paying workers cash in hand. After under reported income and the cash economy, non-lodgement and inadequate or no super paid and overstating ...

Aberdeen Standard hires retirement head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... retirement framework for the Employees Provident Fund, the country's compulsory savings and retirement fund for private sector workers. ASI managing director Brett Jollie said Nyilas' experience in wealth and retirement ensured he was the right person ...

Minimum wage rises by 3%

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... exceeds inflation - would add pressure to small businesses. "The decision to pay Australia's 2.2 million award dependent workers an extra $21.60 per week from July 1 fell well short of the $43 per week the Australian Council of Trade Unions lobbied for ...

Industry responds to election outcome

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... reform agenda." "Electoral results suggest the so-called 'Howard battlers' - the great mass of tradies and aspirational workers who live in outer urban areas - turned on Labor over its plan to cut loopholes for franking credits and negative gearing," ...

Chief economist update: June RBA rate cut not a sure bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
The odds that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will cut interest rates to a new record low of 1.25% from the current all-time bottom of 1.5% when its Board meets on the first Tuesday of June intensified after the Australian Bureau of Statistics' ...

Labor proposal targets low income earners: Association

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... figure the Alliance refers to comes from Treasury modelling and excludes many in the workforce. It only refers to full-time workers not taking into account the 46.3% of women working part-time.There is disagreement on this figure. Grattan Institute research ...

Lax regulation worsens lost super benefits: ISA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... calling on major political parties ahead of the upcoming election to fix the Superannuation Guarantee loopholes costing workers $5.94 billion in super entitlements. A new report compiled by ISA citing 2016-17 financial year data from the ATO shows lost ...

Study unveils state with largest superannuation gender gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... savings gap is worst in Western Australia, hitting a disparity of 39% between males and females. Female Western Australian workers had an average balance of $84,000, while males lead with $132,000. The variances across the states are: Victoria (31%) ...