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Coalition appoints shadow assistant treasurer, financial services minister

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2024
The Liberal Party appointed a new shadow assistant treasurer and shadow minister for financial services in Luke Howarth, while Andrew Bragg takes on the portfolio of home ownership. Opposition leader Peter Dutton unveiled a shakeup of his frontbench ...

Aussies say they're paying too much tax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
A survey has found 64% of Australians think they pay too much tax, with millennials the most likely to complain. Research by Finder found almost 13 million Australians believe they pay too much tax each financial year. According to the study, 80% of ...

More than 40% of women unprepared for retirement: CFS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
About 44% of women are not financially prepared for retirement, according to Colonial First State. That's the key finding from the institution's consumer research, which showed a 13-percentage point gap compared to the 31% of men who feel the same. ...

Advice PDMs, BDMs at inflection point: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
Professional and business development managers are growing increasingly dissatisfied in their current roles as many flagged their exit over the next three years, a new survey finds. A comprehensive analysis of professional development managers (PDM) ...

ASIC cracks down on scammers

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... scrutinising the way lenders comply with their hardship obligations, how banks support First Nations consumers to access low-fee accounts, and how superannuation trustees deliver important member services, such as how they handle death benefits claims," ...

Blackwattle Partners launches global fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... over the long term." But by constraining a fund to only $10 billion, Skinner said, "it forces us to focus on performance, not fee gathering. "We still strive to be the most aligned fund manager in the country," he said.

'ASX Wolf' Tyson Scholz bankrupt in ASIC crackdown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... residence in Queensland. Participants were then encouraged to join the "Black Wolf Pit Channel" on Discord for a $1000 annual fee, an online community where he frequently shared his opinions on buying or selling specific shares, including timing and ...

Large-cap equity funds continue underperformance: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... 2023. Over the 15-year period, however, 80% of them underperformed. In recent years, Lee said the industry has experienced fee compression, both across passive and active managers. "It's really hard for long equity managers to actually charge clients ...

Major decline in group insurance coverage: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... aimed to safeguard Australians' superannuation from being eroded by unnecessary fees and insurance costs. It introduced fee adjustments, moved inactive accounts with low balances to the Australian Taxation Office, and required the cancellation of ...

Vanguard Super hits $1bn, soft launches pension product

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... see that increasing in time once advisers are able to access it," he said. And, in the same way that Vanguard kicked off a fee war with the launch of its accumulation product, it's throwing down the gauntlet in the retirement sphere - the fee on ...