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Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... many countries. This trend will continue as life expectancy continues to increase and many governments reduce their per capita expenditure on their aged population," Knox said. "This shift means communication to members has never been more important ...

Financial services to make 100,000 millionaires by 2017

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... Australia has one of the healthiest distributions of wealth of anywhere on the planet and the world's second largest wealth per capita. Wealth per capita in Australia stood close to US$344,000, well above the US$28,000 global average and the second only ...

Former BlackRock exec to head up new BMO operation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... Australia's pension system is the fourth largest in the world. "Australians have more money invested in managed funds per capita than any other economy so there's tremendous upside for our asset management business in the region," he said. BMO Global ...

Service consumption bucks downward trend in EM equities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... Russia and Brazil. The figures show huge potential for growth in these sectors. In Brazil, the government spends $900 per capita on health, compared with $3,500 in Australia. In India the figure is $100. Private health is therefore an attractive investment ...

ASFA warns govt against Super raid

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... it would reinvigorate the panic and knock consumer confidence in the system." Prime Minister Julia Gillard told the Per Capita forum in Canberra that the latest estimates pointed to a $12 billion shortfall in government revenue. The surprise drop was ...

Wealth gap narrows in China

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... according to a Ministry of Agriculture report cited by the state owned Xinhua news agency on Thursday. Rural residents' per capita cash income was 6778 yuan ($A1041) in the first nine months of this year, up 12.3% year-on-year, the ministry said. The ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... will overtake Spain as the 12th largest world economy this quarter and behind only Norway and Switzerland in terms of per capita GDP), employment, fiscal balance, scope for more monetary policy accommodation... you name it - "We're simply the best, better ...

MySuper to commoditise super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... SuperStream to have a bigger fee impacts. "We expect that the reduction in [inactive] accounts will lead to an increase in per capita administration fees across the industry with the largest impact felt on industry funds (which have the highest number ...

10m Aussies 'Like' Facebook

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... Facebook is just a passing fad, but don't tell that to the 10 million Australians that use it, making Australia on a per capita basis one of Facebook's best markets. According to telephone survey of 1004 American adults conducted earlier this month ...

Fidelity: Asia focusing on intra-region trade

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... growth and consumption. "On the economic side, when countries are poor, their savings rates are high. However once GDP per capita rises into the range between US$3,000 to US$10,000, savings rates decline and consumption becomes a larger portion of GDP," ...