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Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Here we go again; a parliamentarian proposes a policy response to housing affordability involving superannuation and trade-side interest groups circle the wagons, warning of capital market calamity. Triggering this latest ruckus is that at end July ...

ITC targets Gen Y with trees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... Education Scheme (HECS) debt fast, a key financial concern for graduating students. For example, someone with a $42,000 HECS debt could borrow the same amount to buy six forestry managed investment scheme units. The tax deductions that person receives ...

Use SG to pay HECS and let funds borrow: ICAA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) has gotten on the front foot and already lodged its pre-budget submission with the Federal Government asking for some radical policy shifts that include allowing members to use their Superannuation ...

Retiring at 65 unsustainable: Bernard Salt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... annual dinner, said, "The retirement age of 65 years is no longer sustainable because after people have paid off their HECS debt and paid off a decent proportion of their mortgage they really only have 25 years to save for their retirement." The real ...

Don't drink coffee, make more than $160,000

... these compromised their current lifestyle," said Max Super chief executive officer, Andrew Barlow. He said that besides HECS debt, car payments and saving up for their first property, the X and Y-gen spend money on clothes, the latest gadgets, movies ...
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