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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 ...

Urbanisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... be same old same old for China. According to Blooomberg, Li wrote that, "... the nation must deepen its rural-urban population shift to support growth while avoiding the economic stagnation associated with middle-income countries". "Urbanization is not ...

Super fund awards natural resources mandate

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... the idea of specialist natural resource managers, said David Whitten, executive chairman, 90 West Asset Management. Population growth, urbanisation and increasing prosperity are themes that will drive valuation in agriculture, mining and resources, and ...

Consumers clueless on retirement: Bateman

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... reflected in insufficient retirement planning. What's concerning, added Bateman is the two thirds of the Australian population who don't do any additional retirement saving beyond their default contributions. "During last year's survey of those in their ...

Kohler campaign slammed by ASFA

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... going down the path of pushing products that are not suitable or equitable for the large majority of the Australian population."

With or without China we're not cactus: James

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... James is the once in a life-time urbanisation story currently playing out within China and India's combined 2.4 billion population, that will underscore exponential future growth. Despite a notional downturn in its population growth by the 2020s, he ...

Sandy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... "Disaster estimator Eqecat says the storm could cause up to $20 billion in damage and affect 20 per cent of the US population". For sure, the disruption to businesses caused by Frankenstorm would detract from overall GDP. Wells Fargo figures that it ...

AMP Capital attracts $872m from two new offshore investors

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... these highly regarded international investors to participate in the growth of leading shopping centres located in high population growth areas with significant development opportunities. Meanwhile, AMP Capital managed funds has confirmed plans to invest ...