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Household capital remains key: RIR

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... purchase. "As a result, people have less income available to either spend during working life or invest in other savings vehicles," it said. The report noted that as the cost of housing has risen, as has the age of Australians holding a mortgage. The ...

Treasury expected to release retirement review

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... ownership via superannuation, age pension eligibility criteria, allocation to longevity products, spending patterns and the vehicles for superannuation. The report was not released to the industry for a consultation. Since its handing down on July 24 ...

Off-platform assets consume advisers' time

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... invested in assets that are challenging to hold on platforms, such as artwork, jewelry, antiques, memorabilia and motor vehicles. Additionally, advisers used three different platforms on average compared to 10 years ago, but this number decreased as ...

Sydney multi-boutique hires from Perpetual

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
... will work on include fee disclosure, product design and distribution obligations, and corporate collective investment vehicles. In his most recent role, Wong spent more than seven years with Perpetual Limited as in-house legal counsel. He has also worked ...

Chief economist update: Not out of the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
... reflected increases in services (led by health care as well as food services and accommodations) and goods (led by motor vehicles and parts as well as clothing and footwear). The increase in private inventory investment primarily reflected an increase ...

Evans and Partners looks to delist LITs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
... from the ASX. Walsh and Company said the change could improve liquidity, as investors go from being in thinly-traded vehicles at discounts to NTA to being able to enter or exit for a sell spread of about 20 bps. It is also looking to swap out current ...

Future Fund slashes fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... costs on the other hand, are investment management and performance fee costs incurred indirectly through "investment vehicles or where the fund is part of a comingled group of funds". Over the financial year, the fund took on responsibilities for investing ...

Ratings house launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... A local consulting firm has launched a research service aiming to offer quality insights into a variety of investment vehicles, particularly targeting the ratings gap in complex products. Evergreen Ratings, a subsidiary of Evergreen Consultants, analyses ...

ESG ETF demand rises: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... in the industry, and that ESG exposure can be achieved not only via active managers, but also via passive investment vehicles. Cost and the quality of replication still remain the two main drivers for selecting ETF providers, Martellini said, but half ...

SMSF changes unlikely to mushroom new funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... over-optimistic of their funds' performance, don't carefully monitor performance relative to other superannuation vehicles and are not more financial sophisticated than general super members. The submission also said the people most likely to ...