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The case for an overhaul of advice: Rice Warner, FSC

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... separated into either simple or complex advice. Simple personal advice is advice that deals with superannuation, life insurance, debt and budgeting and whereas complex personal advice specifically includes more complex and or risky products or topics. ...

IAPF to acquire management rights for $40m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... total consideration includes the associated transaction costs of around $6.7 million and will be funded via IAPF's existing debt facility. "The progressive investment in the TAP fund will be funded by a new debt tranche that will be added to the existing ...

Chief economist update: Lowe taking interest rates lower

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... three months ended December 2019. To quote governor Lowe: "What are people going to do with this extra saving and improved debt situation... how willing people and businesses are to draw on their accumulated financial buffers to spend and invest over ...

Willis Towers Watson director departs for LIC

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... shareholders access to alternative investment opportunities, comprising of real assets, private equity, real estate, private debt and infrastructure; providing diversification to equity holdings. The fund currently invests in water rights, venture capital ...

Consortium eyes Link Group

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... number of approvals, including receiving the go-ahead from the Foreign Investment Review Board, due diligence and securing debt financing. Link chief executive John McMurtrie is due to retire early 2021. QBE executive Vivek Bhatia will take over the ...

Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... (9.4%); the Nikkei-225 (-0.4%); the Stoxx-50 (-11.9%); the FTSE-100 (-20.4%); and the All ordinaries index (6.8%). China's debt market also offers better returns. Chinese 10-year bonds currently yields around 3.23%. This compares with 0.78% for the ...

Chief economist update: Budget me this Batman

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... the Morrison government's historic fiscal expenditure - amounting to 11% of GDP this fiscal year -- on the nation's debt - that would reach more than a trillion A-dollars over the next three years - and the outlook for the Australian economy. ...

Women focus in Labor budget reply

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... coming into the crisis. Slow growth, flat wages, declining productivity, business investment going backwards, a doubling of debt," he said. "Now they are cutting wage subsidies, slashing unemployment benefits back and have no plan for childcare, aged ...

AAA rating holds on by a thread

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... spending in response to the health and economic crisis will cause large fiscal deficits and a sharp increase in government debt/GDP." Despite the revised outlook, Australia will hold on to its AAA rating for the time being, Fitch said, because of the ...

Chief economist update: Splish splash, budget cash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... 44.8% of GDP in fiscal 2019/20) before stabilising at 51.6% of GDP the following year and the next. But hey, Australia's debt to GDP ratio is way better than its peers - even before accounting for their respective fiscal spend. As at the end of 2019 ...