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Top 10 financial planning stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... regional centres throughout Australia. 6. $1m does not make you rich, Australians say A fifth of those with a household income of $200,000 are living pay-cheque to pay-cheque and having $1 million does not make you rich. Those were two of the many striking ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... despite subsidies to alleviate them, will hurt competitiveness and exports. As the short-run impact of the jump in household income wanes, growth is projected to edge down in 2017. Productivity is expected to be undermined, however, by the fragmentation ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... months of deterioration. The Bank of Korea's March survey showed that South Koreans expect an improvement in their household income and general livelihood over the next six months.

$1m does not make you rich, Australians say

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
A fifth of those with a household income of $200,000 are living pay-cheque to pay-cheque and having $1 million does not make you rich. Those were two of the many striking perceptions to come out of a new survey from MLC aimed at providing advisers and ...

Life cover shifting to younger, lower-income households

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... its adequacy". TAL's research shows that the financial protection score of wealthier Australians - those with household income over $90,000 - has diminished slightly from 2014, from 42 to 40. Similarly, the index fell in those aged between 50 and 69 ...

Only a quarter of Australians contributing to reach retirement goals

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... According to the results, the primary reason (50%) Australians aren't contributing more to their super is because of "household income"; a further 11.6% would rather spend their money now and 10.5% intended to make further contributions in the future. ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... 0.4%, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. "This is an important reason for the ongoing weakness in household income and consumer spending," Eslake said, and concluded that "domestically-oriented companies will struggle." Lower oil prices ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
... a strong spur to consumer spending," that would benefit low income consumers more. "Much of the boost to real household income is likely to be spent, not saved". This would add to the strengthening momentum in the US economy. A fact highlighted by the ...

AustralianSuper ramps up data-gathering strategy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... information about their sex, age, postcode, employment status, level of education, the industry they work in, household income (voluntary), which bank they use, whether or not they have a mortgage, which super funds they are members of, and if they are ...

CBA leads on client satisfaction despite planning scandals

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... men (86.8%). CBA's lowest satisfaction rating was among those under 50 (80.5%), women (81.2%) and those with a household income greater than $100,000 (81.9%). ANZ followed CBA with an average satisfaction score of 83.2%. But unlike CBA, ANZ's highest ...