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Government dawdling on paid parental leave super: Greens

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2024
... spokesperson on women, it's outrageous to make women wait until after the next election. "Labor still haven't come up with a good reason for making women wait until 2025," she argued. "They've been dragging their feet on all things PPL throughout their ...

ASFA Retirement Standard hits record high

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
The ASFA Retirement Standard for December quarter 2023 increased to a record high $72,148 per year for couples, and $51,278 for singles. The necessary lump sum for a "comfortable retirement" increased by 3.5% from last year. "Retiree budgets have been ...

Global dividends reached record high in 2023

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2024
The latest Global Dividend Index by Janus Henderson Investors revealed global dividends experienced an uptick of 5% on an underlying basis, reaching a record of US$1.66 trillion in 2023. The report revealed the year closed on a particularly positive ...

Government consults on options to improve performance test

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2024
... simple-reference portfolio (SRP) frontier. These options focus on risk-adjusted returns, gauging trustees' ability to deliver good returns for a given level of risk. This sector-neutral approach favours well-diversified portfolios, including those with ...

Female fund managers boast 1.2% alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2024
... top-quartile performance through the rolling five-, 10-, and 15-year periods. Under Stevanovic's qualitative lead, the fund is in good stead." Kanelleas' Australian Small Companies Fund is currently in the top two quartiles of performance relative to ...

Retirement saving, investing daunting for women: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2024
... no plan" or "did not know what they needed for retirement" in comparison to the 73% of men stating they have a "general", "good" or "exact plan" for how they will financially prepare to reach the retirement lifestyle they want. Half of men surveyed ranged ...

Simple strategies to overcome gender super gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... take on less debt, we default less. We make better decisions when it comes to investing. We have the skill naturally to be good at this and the challenge we often face is [the lack of] engagement and confidence," White said.

InvestSMART launches investing platform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
... without the relatively high cost of obtaining personal financial advice; and our partners can concentrate on what they are good at without the time and cost of setting up their own managed investment scheme, administration and maintenance," a statement ...

EG to target intermediaries

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
... becoming much more lucrative and appealing than public markets, and being in the public markets is not necessarily always a good thing - that's why firms aren't 'IPO'ing' as much as they used to," he said. "So, accessing the private markets now is ...

'ASX Wolf' Tyson Scholz bankrupt in ASIC crackdown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... 2020 to November 2021. Scholz shared posts on specific companies via Instagram, suggesting he owned shares or viewed them as good investments, likely swaying his audience to buy these stocks. Scholz also conducted seminars on ASX trading strategies ...