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Budget 2024: $20k instant asset write-off extended

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
The Federal Budget has extended the $20,000 instant asset write-off by 12 months until 30 June 2025. Small businesses, with an aggregated annual turnover of less than $10 million, will continue to be able to immediately deduct the full cost of eligible ...

Wholesale investor test reform has several ramifications: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
Proposed changes to the wholesale investor test potentially have sprawling ramifications for financial advisers and is something some experts say will need to be thoroughly nutted out before the government pushes any reforms over the line. Potentially ...

Australian Food Super closes failed investment option

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
Australian Food Super, previously known as the Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust, is closing its Shares product, which failed last year's Your Future, Your Super test. Effective May 27, Australian Food Super is terminating the Shares option ...

Billionaire quant investing legend Jim Simons dies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
Jim Simons, the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that became one of the most profitable firms in history, has died at the age of 86. Simons began his career as a mathematician, earning a mathematics degree from MIT in 1958 and a PhD ...

Rest adds to C-suite with new appointment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
Rest has appointed Amy Murrell to the new role of chief people officer after joining the super fund in 2021 as general manager people and culture. Murrell will now report directly into Rest chief executive Vicki Doyle. "I warmly welcome Amy Murrell ...

'Just do what you say you'll do': ASIC's message to trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant says the regulator's new report on exorbitant advice fee deductions is not a criticism of advisers, rather of trustees failing basic obligations, with more still needing to be done by the reviewed funds some 12 ...

Inflation spooks retirees more than healthcare costs

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
The tentacles of inflation are taking a toll on retirees' savings as the diminished value of their money is their biggest financial worry over healthcare costs, according to a Schroders survey. An overwhelming number of participants in the 2024 ...

The unintended consequences of the four-day work week

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
While a minority of organisations have embraced it, the four-day work week potentially has unintended consequences that are inflationary, reduce productivity, and can lead to employee burnout. This is according to some experts who recently spoke at ...

Senior Cbus investment manager exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
Cbus' head of total portfolio management has left the fund, while a former JANA executive has joined its infrastructure team. Hired three years ago, Cbus head of total portfolio management Mark Ferguson has departed. hE was responsible for asset ...

Quality of retirement does not depend on super balance: Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
The Senate Economics Committee has handed down its Interim Report into existing and proposed super for housing policies. Chair of the Senate Economics Committee Senator Andrew Bragg said the Inquiry was recalibrated to assess how policy could improve ...
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