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Chief economist update: RBA extends QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) painted a pretty picture of the Australian economy in its first board meeting for 2021. RBA governor Philip Lowe's statement at the conclusion of the Australian central bank's February meeting was optimistic ...

Super fund ESG targets lack clarity: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... it impossible for members to understand what's being reported or do any meaningful comparison between funds, and that's pretty poor," Gocher said. "You'd think standardising and mandating that kind of data reporting would be something simple to do. Most ...

Chief economist update: East and west at crossroads

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... quotas, and/or increased tariffs on "Made in Australia" beef, barley and seafood, timber, wine, lobsters, and cotton. I'm pretty sure the politburo's scouring through its shopping list of Australian items it could do without as I type, and would ...

Retail superannuation funds grilled on member priorities

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... extremely impressive. But too many traditional lifecycle products continue to struggle. APRA's 2019 MySuper heatmap found pretty much the same thing."

Why has ASIC still not got a chief executive?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... ASIC as deputy chair but there was a change of view at most senior level." Patterson pressed on, asking: "...It's been pretty clear from the public commentary that the government's intention at the time of appointing you was to ensure that the recommendations ...

Hume clarifies survival of the fittest in MySuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... want to be that specific or stop anyone from doing business. "There's plenty of research out there that ESG investing is a pretty basic risk filter," Hume said. "We don't want it to be prescriptive... Trustees already have a higher responsibility; they ...

MS sufferer fights CommInsure definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... spine and sucking out fluid. You have to have painkillers and go to hospital for it. It is awful," Giles said. "An MRI is pretty awful for a lot of people too. You get on the little table and you're stuck in this tunnel - a lot of people need some ...

Female access to ERS to widen gender super gap

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... a career break to care for their first child in their 30s. Some of these women will now be saving for their retirement pretty much from scratch when they return to work," she said. Speaking at the Super Summit, assistant minister for financial services ...

ACCC flags dangers of ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... Delia Rickard said the agency has seen a 55% increase in identity theft which it believes is as a result of COVID-19. "Pretty much every scam we see now, the scammers are not only trying to get people's money but they're trying to get their personal ...

MySuper returns negative

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... vastly different to the GFC," Rainmaker said. "As a result, the Rainmaker MySuper investment performance cumulative index is pretty much back to where it was 12 months ago, which, all things considered, is an amazingly strong outcome." The research found ...