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Annuities too expensive for most retirees: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
Analysis shows an annuity that pays an income equivalent to the Age Pension would cost a retiree more than $500,000. In researching whether annuities could solve superannuation's need for better retirement income stream solutions, Rainmaker Information ...

Fidelity launches global bond fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... The fund invests mainly in investment-grade global sovereign and corporate bonds but also provides exposure to global high-yield bonds and emerging market bonds. It tracks the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond Index AUD Hedged. It is jointly managed by ...

How will Division 296 Tax impact farmers?

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
RSM Australia director of SMSF services Katie Timms says farmers will be disproportionately impacted by the government's draft legislation Division 296 Tax. Commenting on the future of farming property at the SMSF Association Conference, Timms said ...

Crypto fintech needed AFSL, court says

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024
... allegation quashed. The federal court determined Block Earner's Earner offering, which allowed investors to earn a fixed yield return from crypto-assets, should have been registered as a managed investment scheme, and that Block Earner had provided unlicensed ...

Cash rate unchanged at 4.35%

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the cash rate unchanged at 4.35% on the back of positive inflation data in its first meeting for 2024. Despite inflation registering at 4.1% for the month of December, down from a peak of 7.8% one year prior ...

Actively managed, ESG funds top 2023 outflows

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024
... gains for investors who were brave in the turbulent weeks that went before. For example, the US ten-year benchmark bond yield blew out to almost 5% in October before rallying strongly to end the year down at 3.9%," Lee said.

Sequoia strikes deal to acquire Clique Paraplanning

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
... Clique service. "This also frees our advisers to do more advising." In a separate development last week, Sequoia sold the Yield Report to Finexia Financial Group (FNX) for 500,000 ordinary shares in FNX and established a strategic partnership with Finexia ...

REITs primed for investor cash amid uncertainty

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... relative to equities in the future. Jablonski also stated that the current cap rates for REITs provide a more attractive yield than private real estate. This is because private real estate values are based on appraisals and have limited price discovery ...

Real asset cycle likely to return: Dexus

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
While the past year was a challenging one for most real asset sectors, Dexus Research believes transaction markets will become more active in 2024. Based on the latest Australian Real Asset Review by Dexus Research, the strong performance of the listed ...

Interest rates drive adviser conversations in 2024

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2024
Interest rates will continue to be a driving force behind client conversations in 2024 as financial advisers remain agile regardless of whichever direction they will go. The rapid upward trajectory of interest rates - from 0.10% in April 2022 to today's ...