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Industry super accused of misleading consumers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Liberal MP Jason Falinski has accused industry super funds of using the Google AdWords term 'retail super' after BT was fined for using the term 'industry super'. The subject arose as Falinski questioned ASIC during the Senate Parliamentary ...

Spaceship Super gets boost from Voyager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... existing shareholders. Realistically, there would be a period of time before we will be profitable...we want to build a strong retail services brand and we will have 100,000 customers soon," Moore said. The company plans to raise additional capital from ...

ME Bank chief resigns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... significant contribution to the Bank over the last ten and a half years, transforming the scale and extent of ME's retail offering to customers," ME Bank chair James Evans said. "ME has increased significantly in size and relevance, growing its customer ...

Super fund satisfaction mixed, SMSFs unhappy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... guidance 72% reported being happy with their fund, versus 65% of those who did not seek guidance. According to Roy Morgan, retail funds saw the biggest increase in ratings, recording a 2.2% rise year on year. However, it did little to boost the retail ...

Chief economist update: Not easy easing restrictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... rate has declined to 11.1% in June from 13.3% in May and 14.7% in April - a record high...."spending is increasing". US retail sales soared by 17.7% in the month of May, more than reversing the record 14.7% slump in the previous month as businesses reopened ...

Chief economist update: Good as gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... by 4.4% in the year to May - the third straight month of improvement after a 13.5% fall in February; the contraction in retail sales has slowed to -2.8% from February's -20.5%; so with fixed asset investment whose annual rate of decline sequentially ...

Capital raising relief measures extended

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... the 15% limit on placements to 25%, conditional on entities making a pro-rata entitlement offer or a follow-on offer to retail investors under a share purchase plan at a discount to the placement price. The extension would allow listed entities impacted ...

Chief economist update: We're all Victorians now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... however, stabilised recently and the downturn has been less severe than earlier expected... There has also been a pick-up in retail spending in response to the decline in infections and the easing of restrictions in most of the country." Reserve Bank ...

ERS surges $7bn in a week

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... demographic," Dunnin said. "Also unsurprising is that these funds are also those associated with impacted industries like tourism, retail and hospitality." Dunnin said given the trend expectations of funds with younger members, and therefore smaller ...

REIT revises up portfolio value

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
Centuria Industrial REIT (CIP) has increased its portfolio value by 1.3% compared to the previous book value. The REIT, which only invests in industrial property, conducted external valuations for 30 of its 51 properties which are about half of the ...