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Westpac trumpets infrastructure's 'annuity style' potential

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
... provide retirees with a much-needed "annuity-style" income stream, according to Westpac Group. In a submission to the Productivity Commission's Public Infrastructure Inquiry, the bank said that the infrastructure funding challenge in Australia can to ...

What's luck got to do with it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013

Super must not commingle with banks: ISA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... reference, ISA urged the panel to analyse the ability of the financial sector to "mobilise savings" into long term, "productivity-enhancing" investments. In particular, the submission mentioned infrastructure, innovation and research and development. ...

Govt makes key infrastructure inquiry appointment

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013

Investors unwise to flee emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... for example, was being driven mainly by domestic demand. Also, many of the trends that have driven emerging-market productivity over the past decade (such as the migration in China of cheap rural labour to work in urban factories) had weakened, as had ...

Industry bodies clash over pension age

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
The Productivity Commission's suggestion to lift the age pension to 70 years old has received a mixed reaction from financial services industry bodies. The Financial Services Council (FSC) is in favour of raising the preservation age for superannuation ...

Lift aged pension to 70: Productivity Commission

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2013
With Australia's population on track to reach 38 million by 2060, the Productivity Commission has released a research paper that warns now is the time to plan the policy responses that will be needed to cope with these demographic and economic changes. ...

Should super have its own regulator?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... needs that source of investment opportunity. Cooper also suggested that the Son of Wallis inquiry be conducted by the Productivity Commission, rather than by a specially-created body. Referring to his experience heading up the Cooper Review, he said ...

Infrastructure key in battle against SMSF exodus

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... pool of capital that is super to invest in infrastructure; and one of the barriers is liquidity." However, he said a Productivity Commission inquiry into the costs of infrastructure announced by the government on 13 November will hopefully act as a catalyst ...

It's the twit not the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013