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Australian Unity to acquire aged care facility provider

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... Unity intends to finance the acquisition via its issue of the $120 million Australian Unity Mutual Capital Instruments in December 2020.

Apex ups ante on Mainstream bidding war

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... 348 clients and 1042 funds at March end, up 1% (five net new clients) and 13% (162 net new funds) respectively from the December quarter. "We are delighted with this result. It is beyond our expectations and our strongest quarter to-date," Mainstream ...

PPS Mutual launches member offer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... exceed +100% extra morbidity) will qualify and is applications are available between 1 May 2021 and 30 June 2022. In December, PPS Mutual removed several assessments to its medical and financial underwriting requirements to speed up the application process ...

UBS shuts fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... invested in about 20 ASX-listed stocks. It is one of the lineup that UBS added to ASX's mFunds marketplace in 2015. In December 2018, the fund's management shifted to Yarra Capital Management as a part of wider changes, and Dion Hershan became ...

Chief economist update: Be afraid of inflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... when then Fed chair Janet Yellen announced the first interest rate hike since the global financial crisis of 2009 in December 2016. These countermeasures kept reversed inflation expectations and kept measured inflation within target. She was the chair ...

Media Super ups fees, premiums

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... Meanwhile, the fund is also increasing death, total and permanent disability and income protection premiums from July 1. In December 2020, Media Super had already increased income protection premiums. From July, income protection in the fund's old default ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... price index - the central bank's favoured inflation measure - would grow by 2.4% in 2021 (from 1.8% projected in December 2020) before slowing to 2.0% in 2022 (from 1.9%) and lifting ever so gently to 2.1% in 2023 (from 2.0%).... and don't forget ...

Advice practices set to benefit from tax cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021
... commitment by the Government to reduce the number of regulators in financial advice by confirming the wind down of FASEA by 31 December 2021, and putting increased caps on ASIC's spending," FPA chief executive Dante De Gori said. "The practical changes ...

Key Treasury initiatives outlined

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... Small Business Ombudsman ($49m) and the continued operation of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority until December 31 ($2.5m).

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... issued under the CARES Act in March 2020; there's the cheque for US$600 per person (US$600 per child) announced in December 2020; there's the US$1400 per person (plus US$1,400 per each dependent of all ages) signed off in March 2021. In addition ...