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Super for housing 'economically reckless': SMC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
The Super Members Council (SMC) has warned that encouraging young Australians to use their superannuation for a house deposit could dramatically drive-up house prices and deplete their retirement savings. "We all desperately want more Australians to ...

AustralianSuper announces insurance changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
... and/or Total & Permanent Disablement (TPD) cover from another super fund or insurer increase Death and/or TPD cover due to a Life Event have age-based or age-based plus extra (fixed) cover by providing detailed health information to its insurer, TAL ...

ART reduces admin fees for high balance accounts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) will be reducing the maximum account balance for the percentage administration fee from $800,000 to $500,000. Currently, the percentage fee applies to the first $800,000 of member account balances in each Super Savings ...

Vanguard Super lowers fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
Vanguard Super is reducing its annual administration fees off the back of strong investment performance and its short time in the market. All members will see annual administration fee go from 0.35% to 0.33% per year and the admin fee cap lower from ...

Aussies underestimate life insurance's importance: Investment Trends

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2024
There is a gap in perception among Australians of life insurance as a crucial component of financial stability, according to an Investment Trends Consumer Insurance Needs report. The report said out of the 20 million adult Australians, 6.7 million have ...

The risks and opportunities in advice: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2024
... "Qualified Advisers" (QAs) who will not be financially incentivised. Many believe that super funds will have a leg up over life insurers and banks once financial advice expands to other service providers. "We're very supportive of the reforms. We've ...

What retiree portfolios need to avoid future cost-of-living crises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
The key to a "successful investment strategy" is the ability to generate returns over the long term and managing inflation is an important piece of the strategy, says a Challenger report. Investments much achieve a real rate of return that not only ...

AFM Investment Partners brings new feeder fund to Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2024
... investors. "In addition to regional and technological diversification, the KGAL fund combines the acquisition at different asset life stages and multiple offtake schemes," Donovan said. "The focus is always on a balanced risk-return profile for institutional ...

Scott Farquhar steps down from Atlassian

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2024
... University of New South Wales. Cannon-Brookes said he had known Farquhar for nearly three decades and had "experienced every major life milestone together". "The contribution Scott has made at Atlassian is impossible to quantify," Cannon-Brookes said. ...

Fund managers nervously await 'golden visa' reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... Australia as the 8th best country of residence according to its investment program, lauding it for its reputation, quality of life, and path to citizenship. Portugal, Austria, and Greece top the index. The US, which ranked 10 th, requires just US$800,000 ...
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