Increase to working limits for pensioners Pensioners, including age pensioners, can earn up to $300 per fortnight without impacting on their pension entitlement; this is called the Work Bonus. Unused part of the fortnightly work bonus can accumulate in to ‘Work Bank’ to a maximum of $11,800...
The main opposition to a trade deal with the US was a keenness from Trump's White House for access to British agriculture markets. Boris Johnson did such a thing for deals with Australia and New Zealand, which came into force in 2023, giving those countries easier access to the UK'...
The results indicate that the adequacy of the Age Pension in 2006 was above that of payments awarded on the basis of disability, unemployment or sole parenthood, and also that the pension increase awarded following the Pension Review reduced deprivation among those who received it. However, the ...
“October’s increase in funded status resulted from the significant monthly rise in Treasury yields, marking the first month-over-month increase in the discount rate since April 2024,” said Ned McGuire, managing director at Wilshire, in a statement. “Corporate bond yields, which are used to ...
Compulsory contributions to Australia’s SG retirement savings scheme are nominally the responsibility of employers. However, this 2020 report explains that at least 80% of the cost to employers is effectively passed through to employees as lower pay. That proportion is likely to increase. ...
China's decision to raise the retirement age will give a brief boost to its strained pension system but risks further discouraging weary young workers and cannot arrest long-term demographic decline, experts say. The ruling Communist Party last week announced a gradual increase in th...
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A variety of financial education interventions have been proposed to increase the rates of retirement preparedness, with a host of survey-based studies indicating that these interventions are likely to stimulate the desired behaviors (e.g., Bernheim and Garett 2003; Lusardi, 2004; Bayer, Bernheim ...
A hedge for an annuity book would also increase in value with expected future lifetime. So the fact that the values of ERMs fall with expected future lifetime means that they are unsuitable assets to use as hedges for annuity books. House price scenario analysis In a second type of ...
If such investors could not benefit from tax incentives, they needed a moderate subsidy to increase the incentive to participate in the pension scheme, he concluded. The CSRC has also mandated fee reductions on pension products, including management and redemption fees, in a bid to attract more ...