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RBA forecasting has been 'terrible': Yarra Capital Management

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... believes the RBA is "really behind the curve" when it comes to easing monetary policy, arguing that a delayed rate cut has little to no effect. The firm had predicted at least two interest rate cuts in Australia in 2024, however the RBA failed to deliver ...

Fixing retirement system an election priority: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
... in poorly targeted superannuation tax concessions. Australians also pay too much in superannuation fees and receive too little guidance on how to use their super in retirement." In terms of major reforms, Grattan reinforced its view that a government ...

Super doesn't have to be 'boring', but innovation is key

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
... "Interestingly, if I reflect on the transformation journey that we're on, we're going from a structure where very little is possible in terms of customisation and being able to produce things, to where everything is possible. "So, the type of ...

Super, insurance, and bank boards' 'poor practices' targeted by APRA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... improved over recent years, Lonsdale noted there are still areas of weakness, with some entities treating compliance as little more than "a box-ticking exercise." "By articulating our expectations more clearly and strengthening our capacity to ensure ...

abrdn embraces letter 'E' again

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
After its much derided rebrand did little good, abrdn will add back the three vowels it removed from its name in 2021. Overnight, it was announced that abrdn will be renamed aberdeen group and trade as aberdeen. In April 2021, Standard Life Aberdeen ...

Annuities' capital settings due for change: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... Anthony Asher said the proposed change will "unlikely to make a huge difference to the yield on life annuities, but every little bit helps and it will make the life insurers more stable." "The life insurers (mainly Challenger) sometimes operate at a ...

The productivity problem: Good ideas never put to use

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... was due almost entirely to capital deepening (more capital per worker) - multifactor productivity growth contributed very little." PC economists Lawson Ashburner and Vincent Wong found that since the mid-2000s Australia has found fewer new and better ...

ASIC turns up the heat on private markets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... retail investors can easily gain access to private markets is a concern for ASIC. Some products ask for a buy-in that is as little as $2000. Limited access, liquidity challenges, complexity, higher fees, information asymmetries, and adverse selection ...

Monetary policy not the only game in town: Brian Redican

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... uncertainty," Redican said. "Reassuringly, so far, financial markets have taken that uncertainty in stride, and that does seem a little surprising. I think, to some extent, because President Trump is so capricious, just as he can put on tariffs quickly ...

Treasury drafts superannuation retirement income principles

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... savings to live their best possible life in retirement. "There's nothing stopping them [super funds] but some are just a little bit concerned about building a product they perceive no one wants, but at the end of the day, I can't see how they could meet ...