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CMC Markets buys ANZ Share Investing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021
... cease. The transition will benefit ANZ's clients with mobile apps and complementary education tools and resources as well as lower brokerage charges. "This transaction is part of our strategy to create a non-leveraged investment platform and forms part ...

Recovery set to slow: OECD

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... "snowball's chance in hell" of ever making it through Australia's political system. "Raising and broadening the GST in favour of lower corporate and personal income taxes is a case in point, as is the idea that Australia will suddenly reconsider a broad-carbon ...

InvestSMART launches installment investment product

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
The robo-adviser's new investment product allows lower-balance investors to invest $10,000 now in ETF portfolios with a $4000 initial investment, with the rest split into monthly installments. InvestSMART's fundlater loans the investor the remaining ...

One in four Aussies have no super account

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... knowing their risk profile, compared to 23% of women. There is also a disparity in risk profile along socioeconomic lines. Lower household income earners are less likely to invest in a high-risk profile, with only 3% reporting that they do, as opposed ...

ETF use grows in SMSFs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... SMSFs) of early withdrawal applications due to COVID-19. Nearly 80% of SMSFs had $20,000 in cash available and those with lower cash levels still had an average $668,000 in total net assets of which 47% was in relatively liquid assets. Personal non-concessional ...

Cbus, Media Super sign SFT deed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... Susan Heaney said. She added that by belonging to a larger fund, Media Super members will gain investment opportunities at a lower cost. "Our members have much in common with Cbus members in terms of the nature of their work. Many are self-employed ...

Communicate risk, defensiveness differently: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
Funds will have to shift the way they communicate risk to members and rethink portfolios as the outlook for defensive assets changes in the coming years. That was the consensus from a panel at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ...

HESTA defines perfect merger partner

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... lead the internal Aussie equities team. Sawtell Rickson said the obvious benefits of internalisation are the benefits of lower fees but said it also goes beyond that. "It's really about all that additional intellectual insight, data insights and ...

Mergers don't always lead to scale benefits: Barry

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... back and think that all of a sudden scale benefits are going to full out of the sky and you're going to operate at a lower cost base. That doesn't happen unless you make it happen," Barry said. "It involves some very hard negotiations and tough ...

Buy-sell spreads higher for active and diversified ETFs: Rainmaker

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2021
... number at 2bps median. The third-highest buy-sell spreads were seen across diversified ETFs (25bps), where Vanguard had lower spreads than BetaShares. This was followed by international equities ETFs (20bps). All other asset classes were at or below ...