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Australia home to 43 billionaires: UBS

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... the upward trend in the number of billionaires in Australia follows the trajectory of the APAC region. China hosts the highest number of billionaires at 427, a reduction of 93 from the year prior. India grew its billionaire population from 153 to 185 ...

Venture capital exits expected to grow in 2025: Preqin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... optimism, the report also found that management fees for VC are expected to continue to rise. "Venture capital often had the highest management fees across all alternative asset classes, and fees were at their highest since 2011 in 2024," the report ...

Superannuation tax shakeup proposed by Actuaries Institute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
... potential approaches to executing this reform, including, for example, exempting retirement income benefits from tax up to the highest marginal tax bracket, or implementing a 17% tax on all death benefits above a threshold of $500,000, paid to beneficiaries ...

UniSuper has 'some work to get on with' on cyber front: Chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... fortunately it wasn't - but we know that is a real threat," Chun said. He added that cybersecurity is one of the fund's highest priorities and has been for many years. As part of this, and following the outage, UniSuper has been reviewing its operations. ...

Half of advice, super complaints result in no remedy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... online (60%), service-based remedy (35%), and other remedy (2%). Pension and death benefit complaints were the second highest - after superannuation account complaints (25,000) - accounting for over 10,000. The report also found the most common issues ...

Centrepoint Alliance launches long-awaited IconiQ platform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... IconiQ Super Wrap and IconiQ Investment. "In developing IconiQ, we have ensured that advisers have access to one of the highest quality investment management and portfolio administration solutions at highly competitive prices. As an 'open architecture' ...

FAAA celebrates adviser excellence

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... FAAA awards recognise excellence within the Australian financial advice profession and celebrate those demonstrating the highest standards of professionalism and care," Milnes said. "I congratulate all the winners and the finalists at this year's ...

Illegal investment scheme operator to pay $1.25m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... secure and that returns would be significant. The investor losses totalled approximately $27 million. This is the third highest civil penalty ordered against an individual in relation to a proceeding commenced by ASIC. "ASIC recently announced unscrupulous ...

Investors plan to continue private markets love affair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... and about 25% of these would be investing for the first time. Interestingly, while private markets managers recorded the highest satisfaction levels from investors, private equity has fallen somewhat out of favour, with satisfaction with private equity ...

Private equity, real estate spearhead unlisted assets demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... allocations are expected to grow on average by 0.46 points to 15.4% as investors expect returns as much as 14.3% - the highest among the other asset classes. Real estate investors anticipate 11.6% net returns on average, while those invested in infrastructure ...