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Family-owned companies beating equity markets across all regions

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... top of this, Credit Suisse said, the concerns about succession risk in these businesses is generally overstated. "Our analysis shows that first and second generation family-owned companies generated higher risk-adjusted returns than older peers over ...

CBA climate risk court case abandoned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... week after the claim was filed; CBA published its 2017 annual report, committing to undertake climate change scenario analysis on its business over the coming year to assess the risk and confirming it will not participate in the Adani mining project. ...

ASIC confirms new CIO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... management system (replacing legacy ones), using a "common language that supports consistent recording, reporting and analysis" and developing a new online presence "to support improved stakeholder interaction and better collection of digital data."

AMP launches LIF-ready resource

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... will be conducted. This should include a random and targeted sample of life insurance advice, in addition to an improved analysis on the causes of poor advice, "so that we can be more confident in terms of the real message about the quality of life insurance ...

Peak iron ore?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2017
... say, where iron ore prices go directly impacts the domestic economy. This is no better underlined by the sensitivity analysis conducted by the Australian Federal Treasury that showed "every $US10 a tonne change in the price results in $A1.4 billion increase ...

Lower returns but higher balances for SMSFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... median desired spending level in retirement for a 65-year old SMSF couple is $78,800, up from $75,000 a year earlier. The analysis, which is drawn from Accurium's 65,000 strong SMSF database, comprises data from the 2016 financial year. It further shows ...

AustralianSuper moves to opt-in insurance

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... to opt-out. AustralianSuper's group executive of membership, Rose Kerlin, said the fund made the move after extensive analysis of member experience and feedback on the impact of automatic default insurance premiums on the erosion of account balances ...

The risk of under-insurance is real: ASFA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... and income protection costs the government more than $1 billion annually in additional social security payments." ASFA analysis found that in the 2015-16 financial year, about 16,900 TPD benefit payments worth more than $1.7 billion were made from superannuation ...

BGL integrates with Xero for single database

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... examines the entire businesses community in a yearly count of entries and exits, but doesn't provide regular or specific analysis of small business. Xero's data revealed that just 50.7% of businesses had positive cash flow as of June 2017, with many ...

MySuper milestones monitor industry movement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... Excluding self-managed super funds, MySuper now accounts for more than 40% of super assets or $595 billion. Rainmaker analysis shows there are 111 individual MySuper products offered by 94 separate superannuation funds. In the 12 months to 30 June 2017 ...