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HESTA appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... January 1 and is the nominee for the Australian Private Hospitals Association. Currently he is chief executive at Ramsay Health Care. Prior to that, he was chief operating officer, Australian and Asian operations at Group Financial Controller-Hospital ...

Aged care, gold opportunity for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... Funds of Australia (ASFA) released the discussion paper 'The future interaction of superannuation with aged care and health care', which includes research by CoreData assessing community attitudes towards aged care. The paper found that 41.8% of people ...

Aged care conundrum for superannuation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015
... ASFA conference in Brisbane, Vamos also released a discussion paper on the interaction between super, aged care and health care. The paper says that by 2055, Australian government Aged Care expenditure is projected to rise from 0.9% of GDP in 2014-15 ...

Retirement incomes become industry focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... executive also said a conversation needs to be had about how retirees use their income stream to fund services such as health care and aged care. Vamos' comments were responding to a research paper prepared for the forum by Monash University professor ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... seems it shows the explosive power that can be unleashed when people decide to move in one direction. The community health care industry fund HESTA triggered a similar effect last month when after 18 months of reviewing its investment in the Transfield ...

Pension and retirement strategies a global problem

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... to many other countries, the local industry still faces challenges. "In the coming decades the increasing costs of health care, aged care and pensions will put significant strain on the national balance sheet and, like many countries, we're looking at ...

Super funds need to compete globally

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... Again we're competing against foreign capital here," she said. She added there was scope for investment in aged care, health care, farm land, and residential property. In terms of infrastructure McLaughlin said it was all well and good for the government ...

MyPension product to solve retirement income hurdle

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... strategy is needed to deal with the interaction of the various financial elements of retirement - Age Pension, aged care, health care and the family home." The organisation added that there was a need to "extend the MySuper regime to include retirement ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... economy has resulted in a significant slowdown in sectors like mining, property and manufacturing. But others such as health care, IT, transport and conservation are thriving. Investments in different sectors of the Chinese economy mirror this phenomenon ...

Bill Gross donates $867m to charity

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... so to speak." In the past, Gross has made donations through a family foundation and to organisations that support health care, medical research and education.