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New centre to lead advocacy for super fund members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... voluntary contribution, that's an additional $1 billion towards super. The government can save, too. If half the country's population could self-fund for one more year, the government would avoid $2.1 billion a year in costs. The Centre is expected to ...

Water scarcity a factor for resource fund managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... development plans approved unless they provide water reports. Australia's higher demand for water comes from the urban population, agriculture land and the industry. However, the demand in the mining sector is growing, according to Lourey. Moody's report ...

KiwiSaver up 36% to A$12.2bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... Super Fund and other super assets, NZ's entire superannuation system is estimated to hold only A$56 billion which in population adjusted terms is only one-third the size of the Australian superannuation sector.

Advisers must ask clients about SRI investing: Australian Ethical

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... focusing attention immediately on ethical and responsible governance. "There is a growing awareness among the broader population of the challenges facing the planet and our society," said Vernon. A recent survey by the asset manager revealed that 62% ...

MetLife launches retirement product

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... product was "born out of lessons from the Global Financial Crisis," as well as a way to deal with Australia's aging population. Development was done over the past two years to make sure the fund "got it right," and that lessons could be learned from ...

Mobile payment market primed for innovation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... methods such as credit and debit cards are less entrenched. According to Credit Suisse, while 80% of the world's adult population owns a mobile phone, only 50% have a bank account, 30% have a debit card and only 15% use a credit card. The global financial ...

China's coming soft landing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... looking for work. Illustrating the massive scale of this people movement, in just 20 years the proportion of the Chinese population that are living in urban areas doubled from 25% to more than 50%. This explains why internal urban migration rates can ...

Superannuation needs change: Keating

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... 60 to 80 year olds, and 80 to 100 year olds. One way to combat the unsustainable health burden caused by an ageing population, would be a centralised pool of annuities to provide income, funded by deferred contributions from superannuation lump-sum payments. ...

End voluntary contribution age limits: Suncorp

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... aged care by 2050. "The writing is on the wall that we must improve productivity if we are going to cope with an aging population," Summerhayes added. "Increasing the workforce participation rates for workers aged 55 and over would certainly assist in ...

Aging and deleveraging impact long-term growth: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... investment horizon must focus on these long-term trends when they position their portfolios. The problem of an aging population is most acute in developed economies such as Japan, Germany and the rest of Europe but is also apparent in China. An aging ...