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Super fund warns self-employed of early release risks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
The newly launched superannuation fund targeting the self-employed, GigSuper, has warned its members about the downside of accessing super early if they are left unemployed as a result of COVID-19. ASFA research shows that 20% of self-employed people ...

APRA heat map update in doubt

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
APRA's June update to the MySuper heat map is in question, as the prudential regulator suspends the majority of its supervisory and policy initiatives to zero in on the health of its regulated entities amid COVID-19. The prudential regulator has ...

Chief economist update: What happens in China...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
Slowly but surely, the wheels of industry - even social life itself - are grinding to a halt. If not for the invention of the internet and various apps, there wouldn't be any commerce or even virtual social interaction that would be taking place ...

Chief economist update: Coronaphobia sickens Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
Coronaphobia - the "irrational fear" of getting infected with the coronavirus. Numerous medical experts have offered calming and logical prognoses for the epidemic but these two words - irrational and fear - would be, in a manner of speaking, the death ...

Take pride in super: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
While debate continues to rage about the efficacy of superannuation as the Retirement Income Review prepares to deliver its final report in June, Rice Warner has called on Australians to be proud of the system. In a blog post to its website, the superannuation ...

Clime launches new SMA portfolios

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
Clime Investment Management has launched four new separately managed account portfolios to help diversify self-directed investors' wealth amid skyrocketing volatility. Investors can now access Clime's balanced (35% defensive, 65% growth), growth ...

Hollywood actor charged by SEC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
The US Securities and Exchange Commission charged a prominent actor for failing to disclose payments he received for promoting an investment in a bitcoin offering. The SEC found Steven Seagal had not disclosed that he was promised $380,000 (US$250,000) ...

Praemium expanding in UK, growing managed accounts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
Listed platform Praemium's half yearly results included an update about its UK business and its virtual managed accounts portfolios. The virtual managed accounts had a strong uplift, contributing to platform revenue being up 22%. Praemium's Virtual ...

Chief economist update: Turn the beat around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
The stats are out and they reveal that Australia's inflation genie is still inside Aladdin's lamp. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation inched to 1.8% in the year to the December ...

Underperformers should not be allowed new members: Silk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019
Australians should not be able to be defaulted into or even be able to choose to enter an underperforming superannuation fund, according to AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk. Appearing before the House of Representatives Standing Committee on ...