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Industry fund offers bonus on income streams

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2019
A $54 billion industry fund is nudging its older members towards income streams with a bonus of up to 2%, as it develops its retirement income solutions. Cbus will introduce a bonus for members upon retirement, with chief executive David Atkin saying ...

Defined benefits robbed women: Kelty

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... union boss Bill Kelty didn't hold back in expressing his views on the current state of the superannuation system. "My view is the most important thing to working people in Australia is stop all the changes to super, stop this nonsense. Stop threatening ...

Growing advice group in commissions fight

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... needs to get its numbers above 5000 to receive attention and be heard by parliament. "As practising advisers, we took the view that the two most recognised bodies representing advisers, the Australian Financial Advisers Association (AFA) and the Financial ...

Chief economist update: Rate cuts coming, but not on race day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... which bodes well for future spending - as dictated by the "permanent income hypothesis". In other words, full-timers will view their incomes as more permanent and therefore, would spend more. Likewise, the unemployment rate has declined to 5.2% from ...

Leaving a legacy

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... were in a fortunate position to be able to take the proceeds from that sale and consider what to do with it. We formed the view that we would like to set up a family office and a foundation, and that we would work tirelessly for 20, 30 or 40 years to ...

ASIC nudges robo-adviser to shutter

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
... as co-founders in Plenty and Plenty Plus. Plenty said in a statement: "Through our dialogue with ASIC, we have formed the view that it is overly challenging to provide holistic digital advice within the constraints of the existing regulatory framework. ...

Fixed income investors spooked by global politics: Fitch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
... bank credit quality over the next 12 months than property-market exposure. "Our 4Q19 survey showed that 23% of investors view the macroeconomy as a critical risk to bank credit quality, compared with 19% for property-market exposure," Fitch said. "The ...

CountPlus firm acquires advice boutique

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
... retain branding and keep entrepreneurial control, while ensuring their ability to grow," Aris said at the time. "It is our view that principals and senior employees have a greater incentive to grow their business when there is close alignment between ...

Recognition for industry leader in fight against slavery

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2019
... supply chains and investment operations of large superannuation funds," Steffanoni summed up. Carlsson-Sweeny said Ausbil's view is that interrogating slavery risks in a supply chain is a protection against earnings revision. He noted that the brand ...

ASX faces challenge on ETF stronghold

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
ASX-listed exchange traded funds have raised close to $56 billion but now its lesser-known rival Chi-X is ready to start listing ETFs, with a Kapstream fund kicking off on it today. Chi-X started off trading small amounts of equities in Australia in ...