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Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... Canada, Denmark and Germany. This year, the GRI shows the impact of the pandemic on current and future retirees with interest rates falling across the world and the majority of COVID-19 related deaths in Australia over the age of 70. Natixis Investment ...

Low rates put retirees at risk: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
Retirees will need to be 100% allocated to equities and greatly elevate their portfolio risk to meet most income needs in the current low yield environment, according to Vanguard. Vanguard's latest research paper titled An enduring solution for ...

Chief economist update: The W in the second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... from a further improvement in companies' expectations for the year ahead, but this optimism often rests on infection rates falling, which remains far from guaranteed for the coming months. The main concern at present is therefore whether the weakness ...

Financial advice firms facing failure: Dynamic Asset Consulting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... Jerome Lander said most Australian financial advisers are still operating client portfolios based on a view that interest rates will continue to fall. "The new reality is that rates are bottoming out and can't fall much further in a historical context ...

Chief economist update: Rents under covid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... properties previously listed on the short-term market and newly completed dwellings have become available". "Rental vacancy rates have increased, particularly in areas where the pandemic has had the strongest impacts on rental demand and supply. While ...

SMSF changes unlikely to mushroom new funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
Allowing more members in SMSFs is unlikely to spur their establishment rates, according to a submission by University of Sydney's Susan Thorp. Earlier this month, a bill to increase the maximum number of SMSF members from four to six was reintroduced ...

Chief economist update: October rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... Industry Group's (AiG) September 22 virtual conference, predicting that the Australian central bank will cut interest rates when the board next meet on October 6. According to Bill: "In a speech yesterday the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank gave ...

Chief economist update: RBA negative on negative interest rate policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... its fundamentals, it is not clear this would be effective in the current circumstances. (3) lower the current structure of rates in the economy a little more without going into negative territory. The remuneration on ES (Exchange Settlement) balances ...

Finance job ads perk up

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... -59.6% respectively. SEEK Australia and New Zealand managing director Kendra Banks said there are currently three distinct rates of recovery emerging across Australia. "The first group are the states that have fully rebounded or have job ad rates comparable ...

Ethical super fund overhauls fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... and costs in applicable to Cruelty Free Super are reviewed and updated. This can happen where there is a change in market rates applicable to certain services provided to the fund or where there is a change to the nature and types of services provided ...