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Let's not waste the crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... VFMC head of investment stewardship Talieh Williams said several systemic workforce issues had come to the fore over the last few months, with the economic implications of the pandemic hitting poorer, vulnerable workers harder than most. "It was initially ...

SMSFs to weather the storm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... restricted that activity from happening, the ATO followed a week later with its guidance to say, 'don't do it' because there were a few murmurs here are there saying that this could potentially be used as a loophole." Generally speaking, the SMSF sector ...

Collapse of REITs spells opportunity: SG Hiscock

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... said. "We are cautious on prices but not [expecting] a complete collapse." Instead, sales activity will be low over the next few years and will subsequently increase as immigration improves, he said.

Australia only needs 15 super funds: Consultant

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
It is in the best interests of members for the number of superannuation funds serving Australians to be drastically reduced, according to a new report. Management consulting firm Right Lane is calling on high-cost super funds to urgently wed themselves ...

Kyckr to raise $10m, rich lister on board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... verification will continue to rapidly grow as we have experienced with our contract growth and record revenue in the last few months," Kyckr chief executive Ian Henderson said. "Our strategy is focused on building our enterprise channel and partnership ...

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... said it has been a quite year so far but the team started to rebuild its pipeline of future investments over the past week few weeks. In addition to mid-market corporate lending, it sees an increased demand from property developers and private equity ...

Small caps soar amid accelerated revolution

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... dominated by banks; you may get a little bit of capital appreciation if you bought some now, because they are still one of the few sectors that hasn't really rallied, but small companies have got much higher growth abilities and chances of capital ...

Super advocate takes FSC to task over TPD tests

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Super Consumers Australia has called on Australia's life insurance industry to eradicate "junk terms" from total and permanent disability insurance, after the Financial Services Council committed to ensuring TPD cover wouldn't be impacted if ...

US pension funds approach point of no return

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... measure used by Moody's to measure pension funds' health, Wirepoints determined some funds had assets equal to just a few years' worth of benefits. In contrast, the strongest funds had assets equal to 20 years or more of payouts before COVID-19 ...

Magellan remains cautious, for now

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Sitting on a significant amount of liquidity, Magellan is waiting for a few dominoes to fall before it pulls the trigger and deploys cash from its global and high conviction funds. Having increased the cash balances across both its high conviction and ...