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Retirement on hold for longer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... re-visit the issue. His comments follow the release earlier this year of a report by the Committee for Economic Development (CEDA), which was authored by Mercer partner David Knox, which proposed raising our retirement age to 67 years. The report caused ...

Pension age too low: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... to 67 years, says a report released by the private sector think tank, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). The report, written by Dr David Knox, a partner at Mercer who was previously the Foundation Professor of Actuarial Studies ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... Group Ltd publishes its job advertisement data for September. In Sydney, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) hosts an event entitled Best Practice in Employment Engagement. The Australian sharemarket continued its partial recovery ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... climate changes are presenting further challenges to infrastructure and the future of our economy. Independent think tank, CEDA has already reported on a massive shortfall in the budgeted infrastructure spending in areas such as roads, railways, telecommunications ...

Economic round-up: RBA thumbs-up

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
... deficit sitting at 5.7 per cent of GDP. Interestingly, HSBC's chief economist, Dr John Edwards, said in a paper written for CEDA that a large part of our deficit is attributable to net payments on interest and dividends on offshore debt and accounts ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... list on the ASX. Future Fund chairman David Murray is speaking today to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). The Australian stock market closed flat yesterday with the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index down 1.4 points to 6251.4 and the ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... remained unpaid for months on end. But according to independent think tank, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), Australia still has a major challenge in encouraging business innovation and boosting infrastructure investment. In ...

Can the cash-fest save our competitiveness?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
... competitiveness ranking is likely to continue to be cut-down. According to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), the country's leading independent think tank, Australia's economic infrastructure in particular is performing shamefully ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... Commission, Graham Samuels, will talk on the subject of mergers to the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). Yesterday, the Australian share market suffered its biggest one-day fall in more than five years, the sharp 2.7 per cent ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... ageing population. Ivan Deveson, chairman and national president of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), in a speech to be delivered in Madrid today, is warning that countries not responding to these challenges "will be left behind". ...