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Uptick in adviser numbers: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2023
The financial advice industry bucked the trend for the first time in more than three years, adding 626 advisers during the March 2023 quarter. A new report by Rainmaker Information shows that the advice profession gained several advisers in the non-aligned ...

Future Fund revisits actively managed equity investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023
... strategy in response. For example, changes in domestic markets have made small cap equities attractive to us for the first time and we have commenced a new program to invest in them in recent months," Arndt said. Meanwhile, he highlighted that Alpha ...

APRA consults on approach to combining product histories

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2023
... information paper on its approach to combining trustee-directed product performance histories, to be tested for the first time this year. "At this stage, APRA has drafted the technical determination to not apply to TDPs that are lifecycle products. APRA ...

Quinbrook acquires US biofuel producer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 APR 2023
... banning of traditional low-cost disposal methods into landfill," he said. "The second one is under the IRA, for the first time, biogas can qualify for the same investment incentives that solar and wind and other technologies can. All of a sudden you ...

Top rated superannuation products in Australia revealed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2023
... AAA-rated products. Also notable, MyNorth, Brighter Super and Acclaim Wealth had new products with AAA ratings for the first time in 2023. Of the 392 products available in the market, 158 passed all the benchmarks to receive a AAA-rating. The 158 AAA-rated ...

Global X debuts US corporate bond ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... looking to bonds as a safe haven," he said. "Only a month ago, US 12-month treasuries were paying more than 5% for the first time since 2001, yet with the recent market dislocation we've seen these rates compress back towards 4.50%. "This is where ...

Pay gap bill passes, effective next year

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2023
... Wooldridge acknowledged the significant work of minister for women Katy Gallagher to deliver these crucial reforms. "For the first time employees will have access to the key indicator of how their organisation is performing on gender equality," she said. ...

February exam records 67% pass rate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
... ASIC announced that of the 192 candidates who sat the February exam, 128 passed. Sixty percent of them sat it for the first time. In aggregate, the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), which administers the exam, counted 20,425 individuals ...

Menopause: The silent economic crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... surveys and fared well, in 2020 Future Super conducted its survey and decided to break down the results by gender for the first time. In doing so, it found the male employees were markedly more satisfied than the women; the male workforce returned an ...

NEOS named Life Company of the Year

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... Financial Advisers' Life Company of the Year awards, with TAL and MetLife named runners up. The win for NEOS Life marks the first time in five years that the top gong hasn't gone to TAL. Alongside the overall platinum AFA Life Company of the Year award ...