Some that were sold to those planning to retire in 2010, and marketed as geared toward capital preservation, were heavily invested in stocks and lost 40% of their value last year.
Superannuation, negative gearing, capital gains tax should be on the table," Daley said.
MITCHELL: But everything is on the table – superannuation, negative gearing, capital gains, tax – everything.
The government is building its new tax campaign, targeting Labor's moves on negative gearing, capital gains, franking credits and higher income tax rates at the top end.
Labor's plans on negative gearing, capital gains tax and franking credits, while bold, do not remove those tax breaks altogether.
Labor has framed the election as a "referendum on wages", promising to boost wages growth while rebuilding the budget through closing tax loopholes in negative gearing, capital gains tax and ending tax refunds for excess franking credits.
But if it's explained to them, even if it's in the economic space of negative gearing, capital gains tax, superannuation, and if it's explained to them and it's seen to be fair, they will be very accepting".
WASHINGTON — The nation's capital geared up Friday for a battle over a Supreme Court vacancy that appeared likely to test President Obama's success at skirting divisive social issues, with conservative groups saying they viewed the opening created by the retirement of Justice David H. Souter as an opportunity to regroup after a series of political setbacks.
The agency's other large loan program, facilitated by nonprofit development companies and geared toward bigger capital investments, is similarly stymied, said Beth Solomon, president and chief executive of the National Association of Development Companies, another trade association.
As for hot investment performance, private bankers are mainly geared toward preserving capital, not vastly expanding it.
Terri Cavanagh, senior vice president of the Women Entrepreneurs Connection at Fleet Bank, recommends attending venture capital fairs geared to women.
