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PC recommends switch to digital financial reporting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... into productivity the PC is undertaking, presenting practical reforms to get Australia back on the path to growth. "The average Australian today enjoys living standards three times higher than the average Australian in the 1960s, due in part to the productivity ...

Return to office mandates to harm firms, careers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... impose stricter return to office mandates; the unemployment rate in financial services is much higher than the national average, particularly for top earners, the review shows. And now the impacts of what happens when employees don't return to the ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... Out (ABDO) on the Central Coast today. Focusing on behavioural finance, Li explained that the human brain can process an average of 11 million bits of information per second. However, the conscious brain can only process about 50, and when there's ...

HESTA calls for reforms to help women in retirement

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... as much as $400,000 more in retirement, new HESTA modelling suggests. The modelling showed women representative of the average HESTA member were projected to retire with $712,000 if earning the new higher rate of super for their entire working lives ...

Sequoia resumes trading after ASX query

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2025
... In the past five days, Sequoia's share price had dropped more than 21% with trading volumes almost double the five-day average. In response to the ASX query, Sequoia said it was not aware of any information that could explain the recent trading in its ...

Advisers overlook hype, embed AI in practice: Investment Trends

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... In terms of technology spend, this calculated to be $38,000 per practice. The number of platforms used by advisers on average has dropped from 2.2 last year to 2, with 71% of new client flows now directed to advisers' primary platform. "Advisers ...

HUB24, Netwealth projected to overtake Insignia: Morningstar

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... Insignia as the largest platform operator(s) by FY30, each with 15% share..." "Our five-year projected EBITDA margins average 41% (HUB24) and 52% (Netwealth), also above peers," Ler continued. However, as competition intensifies in the sector, Ler believes ...

American Century cuts US outlook amid tariff impacts

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... stocks. "We expect P/E multiples for US large-cap stocks to decline over the next five years, reducing our (arithmetic average) return forecast to 6.50% compared to 7.25% last year," American Century Investments chief investment officer of multi-asset ...

Economic growth has 'moderated': CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
... unemployment. Victoria stayed in second spot for retail spending with it being 10% above its 'normal' levels or the decade average. Tasmania was steady in fifth place - ranking first on relative unemployment, with the trend jobless rate at a record low ...

AI, corporate tax, skilled workers key to productivity: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... years. Labour productivity growth, for example, has averaged just below 0.4% per year since 2015, compared to the 60-year average of 1.6% p.a. The COVID-19 pandemic was one deterrent in recent years, along with systemic factors that slowed productivity ...