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Small wins for some pensioners

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... Card. For singles, it will jump from $61,284 to $90,000, and for couples from $98,054 to $144,000. Speaking to Financial Standard, Mercer senior partner and global pension expert David Knox said the government is merely responding to cost-of-living pressures ...

Budget deficit pressured by debt costs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
The government has blamed its predecessor for inheriting a budget burdened by $1 trillion in gross debt and deficits projected for at least the next decade. Consequently, new fiscal policies have largely been offset for this year and the next. "We face ...

Federal Budget is challenging: Economist

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
In an interview with Financial Standard, independent economist Chris Richardson said the Treasurer has two big and difficult problems on his hands, the first being gas prices and the other the National Disability Insurance Scheme. In delivering the ...

ASIC finds shortcomings in wholesale market practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
ASIC has released two reports on better and poorer practices in wholesale financial markets, encouraging participants in these markets to benchmark themselves against industry standards. Report 741 Conduct risk in wholesale fixed income markets (REP ...

New ETF to invest in green metal producers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
Global X has launched the Global X Green Metals Miners ETF (GMTL), investing in companies producing metal for clean energy infrastructure and technologies. The ETF launch comes as significantly more green metals are required to produce, transmit and ...

Government scraps legacy tax, super measures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
A range of tax and superannuation changes that were announced by the previous government but never legislated have been scrapped by the Labor government. To provide certainty to industry and those that would have been impacted by the measures, the government ...

Outsourcing is the future: Northern Trust

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... success or failure, according to Northern Trust's head of global strategic solutions Gary Paulin. Speaking with Financial Standard, London-based Paulin said that while outsourcing moves used to just be about cost, the narrative is now changing, becoming ...

Members stick with dud super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
... government's stapling reform that can tie members to failing funds unless they act. As previously reported by Financial Standard, YFYS stapling requirements tied around one million members to a super fund that's failed APRA's performance test. While ...

Link seeks to offload Fund Solutions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
... Solutions Limited, and has appointed Macquarie Capital and UBS Securities as advisers. As previously reported by Financial Standard, in September, Link announced that the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) had issued a draft warning to Link Fund Solutions ...

Magellan targets $100bn in five years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022
... of this article mistakenly stated that David Dixon was appointed deputy chair of Magellan Financial Group. Financial Standard apologises for any confusion caused.