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Pension rule changes to benefit 740,000

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013
... of the social security income test. They are used to assess income from financial investments for social security and Veterans' Affairs pension/allowance purposes. They reflect the rates of return that people receiving income support payments can earn ...

US shutdown slowing pension payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013
... shutdown is beginning to slow pension payments, with fears growing some payments could stop. The US secretary for the Veterans Administration Benefits and Services, Eric Shinseki, appeared end last week before the Congress committee of Veteran Affairs ...

Govt to index military age pensions

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
... reform follows several Senate inquiries and already implemented reforms to retirement benefits for combat and disabled veterans. The Minister for Defence Science and Personnel Warren Snowdon and the Minister for Defence Materiel Mike Kelly announced ...

Fund stalwarts draw $6bn in Aus equities mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... 12 months went to low-cost index trackers. The pedigree of each of the individuals behind the funds is well known to veterans of the Australian investment industry. Investors Mutual is the oldest of the three shops. Set up in 1998 by the Malta-born Anton ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite surged 53.60 (2.04 per cent) to 2,678.75. Volume was low due to a public holiday for Veterans Day, which also saw bond markets closed. A boost to confidence also came when Greece's new unity government was sworn in to ...

Commonwealth trustee reforms passes Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... and potential for lower fees, particularly for serving and former Defence Force personnel. Warren Snowdon, minister for veterans' affairs and defence science and personnel, said the improved efficiencies, if they lift net returns by an expected 0.5 per ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... economy over the past few years. What does a government shutdown mean? According to the Washington Post, "...some military veterans might not receive benefits checks and other Americans would be unable to apply for Social Security. The State Department ...

What ifs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
It's Veterans Day holiday in the United States - a day celebrating the signing of the Armistice that brought World War I to its formal end. And as the world celebrated the end of the first world war that happened nine decades and two years ago, the ...

Military Super reforms under senate scrutiny

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... by the Federal Government - including the management merger of civilian and military schemes. The shadow minister for veterans' affairs, Louise Markus, and the shadow minister for defence science, Bob Baldwin is calling on interested individuals to have ...

LMW Invest secures property veterans

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Listed property valuation firm LandMark White is setting up a new investment management arm that boasts industry heavyweights Linden Toll, president of ADPIA, and ex-Investa fund manager Michael Este at its helm. LandMark White has traditionally been ...