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ERS extension flagged, criticised

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... ISA has called for the scheme to end, saying Australians will be forced to pay tens of billions more in taxes and suffer lower investment returns if the government opens a third tranche. The group said its opposition to the scheme is due to its poor ...

Chief economist update: Winter of Europe's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... "...researchers found that a 1-degree temperature increase and a 1% increase in relative humidity were associated with a lower daily effective reproductive number. As such, the researchers wrote that "high temperature and high relative humidity [can] ...

Australian Ethical cuts fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
Australian Ethical has cut fees for super fund members as part of what it says is a continued effort to provide lower cost ethical investment options. The super fund reduced the investment fee for its defensive investment option in super and pensions ...

Vanguard to cull institutional mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
The investing giant will wind up mandates with 12 local institutional investors, as it pivots away from the lower-fee business line to retail, adviser and its in-house super offering. Vanguard will discontinue special mandates but still allow them in ...

Ratings deteriorate at AMP

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
AMP has suffered a further blow this week, after Moody's downgraded its ratings of the embattled wealth management giant. The ratings house lowered its ratings on AMP Group Holdings, AMP Group Finance Services and AMP Bank from A3 to Baa2. However ...

Tax concessions, infrastructure in focus for budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... is focused on recovering jobs, livelihoods and incomes of those effected without increasing taxes. "We're delivering lower taxes for businesses and individuals. Australians are already benefiting from the tax cuts made in the last two budgets. Just ...

Chief economist update: Morrison manufactures Australia's future

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... comparative advantage and just-in-time supply chain management, triggering product innovations, higher value-added and at lower costs... until a tiny micro-organism came along. "We cannot ignore the obvious. The efficiency benefits of hyper-globalisation ...

Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... access scheme to future retirement outcomes. What we do know is that those who took up the offer, who were mainly younger and lower income workers, may be disproportionately affected due to the effect of compound earnings," Hambly said. Coming in at ...

CBA progresses with divestment to AIA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... financial planners failed to inform their clients they could obtain substantially similar or better insurance policies with lower premiums from alternative insurers," Allsopp said.

Chief economist update: Australia's third arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... handing out good tidings. October 6 is RBA meeting day, the day financial markets expect the Australian central bank to lower the official cash rate from a record low 0.25% to 0.1%, and its three-year bond target and Term Funding Facility (TFF) to below ...