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Active funds outperform passive strategies - sometimes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023
Morningstar has revealed that in sectors such as Australia mid/small blend and local large value equities, active funds demonstrate superiority, while passive funds remain dominant in markets with representative indexes. According to the research house's ...

E-commerce giant retreats from super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023
... customer base," then-Mercer chief executive and managing director Ben Walsh said. But it didn't happen, with the product never gaining scale. Since inception, Kogan Super has only amassed $4.59 million across its five investment options, according ...

Caddick victims sue auditors in class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
... Melbourne-based law firm Mackay Chapman, are suing the SMSF auditors who allegedly failed to pick up that the assets Caddick invested never existed when reviewing the annual financial reports. Filed in the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney on October ...

Piper Alderman investigates second CFD class action

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2023
... Sambrook said everyday Australian retail investors who had little or no experience in trading complex financial products should never be offered highly-leverage CFDs. "The class action seeks to provide a remedy and recover losses for those retail investors," ...

Inflation data not encouraging: Powell

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has repeated the commitment to reducing inflation to 2% and maintaining a restrictive policy until this goal is reached. In a speech on Thursday, Powell told the Economic Club of New York that the September inflation ...

AAT overturns ASIC ban on investment guru

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2023
... Migration Agent's Licence, Real Estate Agent's licence." Following ASIC's investigation, Grubisa explained she has never held a credit licence, however, her company did. "It was loose language and I regret it now," Grubisa said in a cross ...

Lack of income stream drags local retirement system: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023
... grade systems receive regular income in retirement and are therefore encouraged to spend knowing that their income will never run out. This is not yet the mindset in Australia, where we know that many retirees are underspending." If Australia is to be ...

Life insurance industry profits double, premiums rise: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023
Life insurance profits in Australia have soared to $1.2 billion, doubling in the year to 30 June 2023, primarily due to gains in superannuation business, according to KPMG's annual market review. Risk products recorded a $400 million profit in FY23 ...

The Voice is not at the expense of the economy: Chalmers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2023
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has refuted claims that the government's push to incorporate a Voice to Parliament has come at the expense of the economy. Tomorrow, millions of Australians will hit the polls and decide if a First Nations' Voice to Parliament ...

I can only apologise: PwC boss

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2023
... of facts, took confidential Treasury information and shared it in our firm," he said. "I can't defend that, it should never have happened. They breached their confidentiality agreements and that's what's happened, okay? "I can only apologise ...