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UniSuper waters down 'volatile' environmental option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... environmental themed investment option." From March 28, the option will aim to ensure that at least 50% of the weighted average reported revenue from the listed equities component of its investments is derived from environmental themes and the threshold ...

Tokenisation can save US$135m in back-office costs: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... less manpower to perform tasks such as checking and managing share dealing and translate to a 30% benefit to profit on average. For the average fund, tokenisation is expected to generate a 30% cost saving on fund accounting, 25% on transfer agency costs ...

REITs to finally see 'watershed' moment: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... the first time in 12 to 24 months. The office sector, however, remains the only detractor. "We found that on a weighted-average basis, cap rates expanded just +3bps in the past six months, and by +21bps in the 12 months to Dec-24. Asset values declined ...

Praemium names interim CFO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... capabilities. In the half year to December 2024, the firm reported $30.2 billion in assets sitting on its platform on an average basis, including $4.2 billion from OneVue. Broadly, Praemium's funds under advice for the period was $62.1 billion. It ...

GDP edges higher, but for how long?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... expectations, but questions remain over how sustainable it may be. "While GDP is still well below Australia's historical average (3.34% annual growth), the modest GDP growth in an environment of tighter monetary policy indicates the economy is heading ...

Aussie dividends underperform on global scale: Janus Henderson

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... median dividend growth of 3% was better than the underlying decline in dividends paid, it was still well behind the global average," the report said. "The fourth quarter showed a deterioration on the annual trend, with payouts down 9.2% underlying." ...

Insurance through superannuation stages a comeback

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... and around 5% exceed a year. Claims processing times improved between 2023 and 2024, the research paper said, with the average time to finalise TPD claims falling from 4.9 months to 4.4 months and DII claims from 2.0 months to 1.6 months. Though, the ...

Financial services chips away at gender pay gap: WGEA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... financial services sector made a fractional improvement on its gender pay disparity, reporting a 22.2% gap on a median and average basis, the latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency's (WGEA) report shows. The 2024 financial year shows that financial ...

Insignia Financial takes $53.5m profit hit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... SLNs include an equity-linked component under which the Additional Return Amount (ARA) is payable if the volume weighted average price of Insignia shares during the 30 trading days prior to the date of the request exceeds the reference price. The request ...

Outlook favourable for practice valuations: Guide

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... fees could sell for more than three times the fee base. However, clients with fees less than $3000 a year are driving average multiples down, the group said. This is because low-fee clients can often command the same amount of work as those paying higher ...