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Family offices maintain a steady course: Goldman Sachs

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2023
Despite the geopolitical and economic landscape, most family offices have only moderately adjusted their asset allocations from 2021, according to Goldman Sachs' latest global survey of family offices. Informing their investment decisions, Goldman ...

How this budget was built

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... intra-program priorities but the broad parameters are already set. Showing how this played in 2022-23, the Budget Papers state that the nation's economy is expected to grow only 1.8% in 2023 after surging twice as fast by 3.6% in 2022. Partly explaining ...

Federal budget 2023: Winners and losers

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... and other concession card holders. It is the largest investment in such incentives ever. Energy bills: From July, federal, state and territory governments will co-fund $3 billion worth of bill relief which will see over five million households benefit ...

Australia's enviable debt levels

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... position. At June end 2022, there was $895 billion in Australian government securities on issue by the Commonwealth government. State governments, according to Reserve Bank statistics, have about another $500 billion in bonds on issue, bringing the broad ...

Labor strengthens economic equality initiatives

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... includes $159.0 million to extend the Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Responses National Partnership Agreement with state and territory governments to support frontline service delivery," Chalmers said. Chalmers promised more will be done to strengthen ...

Boutique appoints head of distribution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... distribution director. Innova is a provider of managed portfolios, including through a recent partnership with Colonial First State's FirstChoice. Its solutions are also available on BT Wrap, Netwealth and HUB24.

Australian Retirement Trust reduces fees, ups premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
Australian Retirement Trust is reducing fees across a range of its investment options, including most indexed offerings. However, any savings will be offset by substantial increases in insurance premiums. The fund notified members that, from July 1 ...

Rest to sell Endeavour stake

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
Rest will divest its 12.6% interest in Endeavour Energy to a fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management (Macquarie), already an investor in the company. The industry super fund acquired its stake in Endeavour Energy in 2017, when the NSW government ...

Industry funds gain ground in retirement asset battle: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
... sector's long-standing dominance in pension accounts. According to a KPMG report, although Insignia, Colonial First State (CFS), and AMP lead the pension market by total accounts, industry funds Australian Retirement Trust, AustralianSuper, and UniSuper ...

Economic stimulus unlikely in budget: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
While the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is focused on cooling inflation, it's unlikely the May budget will look to boost the economy, Commonwealth Bank's Gareth Aird tells Financial Standard. Some were stumped this week after the RBA sent ...