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Comfortable retirement a pipedream for many Australians

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2004
... superannuation fund. Superannuation Trust of Australia chief executive officer Mark Delaney said the nation's superannuation policy debate needed to take into account the reality that the majority of ordinary Australians were facing a financially insecure ...

Democrats to test Latham's resolve on super reform

The Australian Democrats aim to test the resolve of ALP Leader Mark Latham's interest in reforming the parliamentary superannuation scheme, by introducing a Private Members Bill into the Senate early next year. Democrats' Superannuation spokesperson ...

Dollars rise, housing downturn risks to growth-funds manager

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2003
... clarifies." Mr Jordan also said the most topical issue for brokers, strategists and fund managers at the moment was the age-old debate about whether to invest in resources or banks. "Banks, on our valuation, actually look cheap and the resource companies ...

APRA cracks down on lax regulatory reports

... the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 2003. The crackdown comes as the government and opposition are locked in debate over other initiatives to improve investor safeguards. The first two instalments of Labor's four-part superannuation strategy ...

Coonan calls on Latham to back portability regulations

... retirement incomes, Senator Nick Sherry, had not offered a reason for opposing the regulations and "can't even be bothered to debate them in these Parliamentary sittings". Senator Coonan appealed to new Labor leader, Mark Latham, to support the regulations. ...

NAB boss says UK operations in good shape

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2003
... Kingdom operations, saying they are still well positioned for growth. Mr Cicutto said there had been "a lot of noise and debate about our UK operations". However, "regardless of this, their worth is considerable." He said NAB's UK businesses had produced ...

First home buyers housing affordability falls to record low

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2003
... said. "The effect of planning and infrastructure costs on the price of raw land are at the centre of the affordability debate, not migration and negative gearing."

Coonan responds to Labor super initiatives

The government has responded to the first two instalments of Labor's superannuation strategy, claiming the proposals would burden workers and businesses with more red tape and without any real benefit. Minister for revenue and minister assisting the ...

Recommitment to super issues being emphasised by federal politicians: ASFA

... main functions," said the Chief Executive Officer of ASFA, Philippa Smith. "It allowed people to be stimulated to get into debate and we also deliberately encouraged people to give different points of view." She cited the fact that the government was ...

Alternative investments proving hugely popular: Glebe

... and Socially Responsible Funds (SRIs) have also consistently grown above the total market. In what has been a simmering debate amongst certain quarters of the Australian investment scenario as to whether alternative funds are hot or not, Paul Harding-Davis ...