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Most Australians proactively retire: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
... proactively retiring with fewer worries and are doing so to enjoy their twilight years, contrary to popular belief, a new study reveals. Research from Macquarie University's School of Psychological Sciences and Challenger surveyed about 1000 Australians ...

How advisers can reap additional $2.1bn in revenue

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024
... says. Despite the enormous regulatory and qualification upheavals advisers experienced since the Hayne Royal Commission, the study found that opportunities abound and there is cause for optimism as the industry reaches a tipping point. To be successful ...

Consultation opens on tax practitioners' registration

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024
... amended to give the TPB greater flexibility to accept other qualifications outside the traditional tax practitioner course of study. Treasury also asks whether the current formulation of the fit and proper person test within the TASA adequately protects ...

More money does lead to happiness: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... with wealth. Despite previous research from Wharton suggesting that wellbeing plateaus at a certain income level, the new study revealed wellbeing continues to rise for those with higher incomes. "Larger incomes were robustly associated with both greater ...

ETFs trump active managed funds in core portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... billion," ASX general manager and investment products and strategy Andrew Campion said. The exchange's 2023 Australian Investor Study showed 1.5 million out of the 7.7 million investors hold at least in one ETF. "Looking ahead, if I had to sum up in ...

Regulation, profitability top adviser worries: BT

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
... industry." "Raising awareness of financial planning as a career path is important. I don't think people aren't choosing to study financial planning because they don't like it, but rather that they don't know about it," Barr said.

Adviser exam yields 70% pass rate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006, the Privacy Act 1988, and the Tax Agent Services Act 2009. Candidates must also study financial advice construction, which is the suitability of advice aligned to different consumer groups, incorporating consumer ...

Corporate borrowing hits all-time high despite interest rates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
... the increase in global net borrowing last financial year. The asset manager's annual corporate debt index is a long-term study into global company indebtedness that scrutinises the extent to which big players are financing themselves with borrowings ...

Social media, news addiction cost returns: Morningstar

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2024
... Reddit's WallStreetBets to make big bets on the company, spawning what otherwise became known as a meme stock. A 2022 study of investors on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange found they use 2.8 channels on average to obtain information. Social media was ...

Advisers shoulder massive wealth transfer

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2024
... she says, noting careful planning, education, and managing potential social tensions are also important. A 1987 in the US study by John Ward claims that 70% of wealth transfers fail by the second generation and only 13% of family businesses survive by ...