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KiwiSaver appoints default providers

... of their gross salary. New staff are automatically enrolled to the scheme but will have eight weeks to opt out. As an incentive, the government will contribute $1000 and pay some scheme fees for those who sign up. In addition, employer contributions ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... structure of the Federal Government's job network in allocating more assistance to long-term unemployed was giving them incentive to keep people on the dole for more than a year has been negated by the chief executive of the National Employment Services ...

Record numbers achieve CFA charter

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... never set quotas. Anyone who buys into our ideas of ethics and attaining high levels of knowledge is welcome& Our growth incentive comes from a desire to improve financial markets," he said. Information on the CFA Institute can be found at www.cfains ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... excess of a year is as much as five times that for those who have been out of work for less than a year. This provides an incentive for job network members to wait for the year to pass before providing a higher level of support to the unemployed. The ...

Optimum time for super: Mariner

Mariner Financial has appointed its head of technical services, Kate Anderson, to the new role of superannuation and retirement strategist, a critical step as Mariner revs up to introduce new superannuation-related financial planning strategies and ...

Real estate commissions better than advisers': REIA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
... Parliamentary Inquiry into the Structure and Operation of the Superannuation Industry, REIA said, "There is a strong incentive for the financial advisor to recommend products attracting the highest rate of commission, rather than those necessarily offering ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
A leading Australian think tank has called for more interventionist government policy to ready us for the economic impacts of the ageing population. Ivan Deveson, chairman and national president of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia ...

More super incentives from the Treasurer

Four months after the Federal Government announced sweeping changes to the country's superannuation system, the Treasurer Peter Costello is back in the limelight offering even more incentives for people to boost their super savings. Yes, both the reasonable ...

Age and marriage trigger retirement planning: AXA

A new study has found that most Australians only start to get serious about planning for their retirement when they hit 40 or when they get married. Investment and financial planning group AXA partnered up with the Macquarie Graduate School of Management ...

Perpetual chief signs on to bigger pay deal

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... provisions, Deverall's total employment cost increases by $250,000 to $800,000, he is eligible for a short-term performance incentive of up to $1.375 million per annum and a long-term performance incentive of $1.025 million, an increase of $225,00 per ...