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Morgans Financial crowned largest licensee

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
... advice practices for $82.5 million. AMP retains a 30% in the advice businesses. In closing out 2024, the total adviser population remained stable at 15,507, dipping 1% compared to the start of the year. The advice profession welcomed just 300 new entrants ...

Brighter Super to buy up Queensland real assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... Brighter Super believes Queensland is on the cusp of significant growth, with the 2032 Olympics on the cards, a growing population, and record infrastructure spending underway. "This is the first of our investments, progressing the Brighter Super Queensland ...

Australia home to 43 billionaires: UBS

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... hosts the highest number of billionaires at 427, a reduction of 93 from the year prior. India grew its billionaire population from 153 to 185; more than half of them (56%) are self-made. Hong Kong is home to 74 billionaires, while Singapore has 47. More ...

GPT Group, Perron enter retail partnership

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... centres that are top performing in their respective trade areas and extremely well positioned, in catchments with strong population growth and favourable demographics," GPT's chief executive Russell Proutt said. "Our investment is consistent with GPT's ...

Unemployment drops below 4%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... grew 0.2% in November 2024, following an average monthly rise of 0.3% since the middle of 2024, in line with recent population growth. "The participation rate fell by 0.1 percentage point to 67% in November, from the historic high of 67.1% in September," ...

Productivity slump threatens asset returns: Shane Oliver

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
... Shane Oliver. Oliver said productivity growth has been constrained by a cocktail of factors, including very strong population growth which has led to housing affordability issues, a slowdown in business investment, increased market concentration which ...

Superannuation tax shakeup proposed by Actuaries Institute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
... "incomprehensible" for many Australians, while also raising concerns about whether it provides equitable outcomes across the population and different generations. The current rules regarding earnings on superannuation assets, which are taxed at 15% in ...

Permanent disablement claims for mental health explodes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... steadily and substantially over the last 10 years, the report said, with the use of mental health services across the population having increased on average by 2.9% each year over the last 10 years. Within life insurance the increase in the rate of mental ...

Nuveen raises over $400m for real estate debt strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... conservative lending parameters and prime assets or projects in sectors that benefit most from Australia's high population growth and limited supply. "Through continued partnerships with likeminded clients, we are excited to continue taking advantage ...

Commonwealth Bank names chief economist

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... has responsibility for macroeconomic conditions and forecasting, including inflation, fiscal and macro policy advice, population analysis and climate and energy policy. Yeaman has also served as Australia's G20 finance deputy and represented Australia ...