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Level premiums to remain

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... Clark said in some ways insurance businesses work better with level premiums but Australia in unique in its uptake and reliance. "I would hope there's a future for level premiums, that's our intent. That's. But there are complications and ...

Ratings deteriorate at AMP

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... the guarantee that AMP Group provides to AMP Bank's senior debt obligations." The bank's BCA is constrained by a high reliance on wholesale market funding, Moody's said, with a non-performing loans ratio of2.88%; "high relative to peers" reflecting the ...

Low rates put retirees at risk: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... experienced the recent reduction in dividends across the Australian share market are understandably worried given their reliance on these payouts to fund their retirement," Vanguard Australia senior investment strategist Inna Zorina said. "This scenario ...

The future of infrastructure is digital: Macquarie

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
... achieve from their investments." Kuchel said that as data continues to become a larger part of everyone's daily lives, the reliance of digital infrastructure will grow alongside it. "We are consuming more on a personal basis, but also more data is being ...

Rejigging retirement income: First Sentier Investors

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... income solution for retirement," he said. "For many people thinking about retirement income solutions there is still a reliance on using cash, fixed interest and bonds but there is a broadening of that allocation framework and equities have been called ...

Investment strategies need to change: GSFM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... all transactions. Heightened regulation in recent years has permanently impacted broker dealer capacity. Consequently, reliance on the broker dealer community for liquidity purposes is challenged in many environments." Souders said fixed income liquidity ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... Supporting the road to recover, the review noted that there was "a strong case for reforming the GST and reducing our reliance on more harmful taxes, while re-directing a portion of revenue to lower income households so they do not bear the burden of ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... Review of Federal Financial Relations draft report says there is a strong case for reforming GST and reducing the nation's reliance on more harmful taxes, while re-directing a portion of revenue to lower income households so they do not bear the burden ...

Labor calls for end to war on super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... so. This, despite universal superannuation being an amalgamation of both Liberal and Labor values, Jones says. "Self-reliance, which the Liberals often claim as their animating force, means providing for yourself and not being a burden on others. Having ...

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... particularly destructive for those nearing retirement. "A weakness of traditional asset allocation approaches is the reliance upon asset class return forecasting and varying correlations in the build of a relatively poor risk management framework," he ...