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Tax miners, major corporates to tackle housing shortage: CFMEU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023
The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) is calling for the introduction of a $28 billion annual super profits tax to close the gap in social and affordable housing. The CFMEU commissioned Oxford Independent Economics to ...

Spaceship secures $6m, plans new offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2023
... back in business and planning the launch of a new investment service, buoyed by an additional $6 million in funding. The extra cash comes from its two major shareholders, Mike Cannon-Brookes' family office Grok Ventures and Horizons Ventures, the ...

AI-fuelled narrow market challenges diversification: Epoch

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023
Extraordinarily narrow market leadership within mega-cap tech will offer investors the opportunity for diversification in more reasonably valued market segments, predicts Epoch Investment Partners managing director, research Kera van Valen. Addressing ...

Hostplus tops up mandate, returns 8% to members

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2023
... fund. To date, Hostplus has contributed a total of $310 million to the IP Group Hostplus Innovation Fund. IP Group said the extra money will bolster investment in companies specialising in areas including clean energy, the decarbonisation of transportation ...

Does ESG have a fiduciary issue?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2023
... Capital Management, said. In response to claims that ESG was confusing or unspecific, Bylander said the acronym simply means "extra special good". ESG investing is a holistic approach that "widens the lens of what we look for when evaluating investments ...

Next RBA boss to be picked in July: Chalmers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023
... interest rates go it makes it harder for people to pay the bills," he said. He noted that when rates go up Australians find extra repayments tough, so it's important for the RBA to be transparent in its decision making. "I think I made the obvious point ...

Industry bodies respond to QAR recommendations

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2023
... shown that implementation of the Quality of Advice Review's recommendations would see retirees spending $25 billion extra in retirement by 2060, raising standards of living in retirement and reducing the cost of an aging population to the government," ...

Super fund ESG options underweight BHP, overweight CSL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023
Super fund ESG options on average have "sharply reduced" exposure to BHP, Woodside Energy and Transurban while being overweight CSL, Telstra and ResMed, according to Rainmaker Information. Rainmaker Information has released its most recent Rainmaker ...

ESSSuper reduces admin fees, renews insurance mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
... group insurance contract with AIA Australia, saying that it negotiated 10 policy changes to the benefit of members and at no extra cost. Changes to death and TPD cover include replacing the two-year pre-existing condition exclusion with 30 consecutive ...

Economists divided over cash rate decision

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
Accelerating wages growth and higher than expected inflation would perhaps indicate an increase is justified, however, the economic hardships faced by Australians is intensifying. According to an economic misery index by the University of Melbourne ...