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FEATURE: Gear up for retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... advisers and product providers can join forces to come up with the best strategies to meet retirees needs. Treasurer Joe Hockey's 2014-15 budget speech in May sent the wheels of the financial services industry speed up. The rise of the Age Pension eligibility ...

Super advocates urge caution on age access

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... federal government not to rush any changes to the age at which people can access their retirement savings. Treasurer Joe Hockey has hinted the government could change the age at which people could access their super, but Prime Minister Tony Abbott quickly ...

Treasurer signals major superannuation shake up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has given the strongest signal yet that the government will be introducing sweeping reforms to bring superannuation into sync with age pension reforms that were announced in last week's budget. The Treasurer was speaking last night ...

Advisers turn budget into opportunity to engage

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... government's warnings before the release of the 2014 budget put advisers on guard and, shortly after the end of Treasurer Joe Hockey's speech; they began the work to help their clients. A number of advisers sent email briefings to their clients which ...

International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... budget under Tony Abbott was either brave or foolhardy," BBC Sydney correspondent Jon Donnison wrote following Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget speech on Tuesday night. The journalist said that "compared to most countries, Australia is doing relatively ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
Phew! Well that wasn't so bad after all. Yes Virginia, if you didn't fall asleep listening to Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget speech last night - mainly because most of the measures Joey mentioned were already drip-fed to us days in advanced - you'll ...

Budget forces advisers to rethink tax, retirement strategies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... will have to review their clients' tax and retirement strategies, following the release of the 2014 budget. Treasurer Joe Hockey confirmed that the Age Pension eligibility age will rise to 70 by 2035 and he said that the government will index the Age ...

Pension age to rise 70 by 2035

JAMES FERNYHOUGH AND AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
The government will raise the Age Pension eligibility age to 70 by 2035, Treasurer Joe Hockey has said in his 2014 budget speech. From 2017, the government will also index the Age Pension, as well as the Disability Support Pension, to inflation rather ...

Industry prepares for Abbott's first budget

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... age, it is not expected that there will be significant changes to superannuation. At a doorstop interview Treasurer Joe Hockey echoed the PM's sentiments, saying: "It will be an easy budget to criticise but for the nation it will be an important budget ...

NAB and FSC tight-lipped on Hockey meetings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... Services Council (FSC) and National Australia Bank (NAB) have given little away about their involvement in Treasurer Joe Hockey's cash-for-meetings program reported by Fairfax this morning. Both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age this morning reported ...