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Financial stress at record highs: AMP

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are at a significant disadvantage compared to the non-indigenous population in terms of meeting expenses, savings balances and use of financial products and services. Meanwhile, on how financial stress ...

Online investor numbers taper out: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2022
Retail investor numbers have dropped as pandemic-driven hype dampens according to an Investment Trends, 2022 First Half Australia Online Investing report. The report reveals retail online investor numbers have begun to ease. An estimated 1.47 million ...

ASIC capability review released

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2022
... recommendations will require a cultural shift in the way that ASIC approaches its work and engages with its regulated population and broader stakeholders. If achieved, ASIC at all levels should have the confidence to engage openly with its stakeholders ...

Calls for greater efforts to close gender pay, super gap

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2022
... disparity. The ABS said the difference in full-time earnings between males and females was 14.1%. Further, the employment to population ratio was 68.4% for males and 60.1% for females. The average weekly ordinary time cash earnings for full-time adults ...

ASIC highlights strategic priorities

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2022
... around 11.7% of member accounts with superannuation funds currently belong to members aged 65 and over. "As Australia's population ages, this proportion has been steadily increasing. Consumer superannuation accounts are also increasingly being held by ...

Singapore to be millionaire capital by 2030: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
It's estimated that Singapore will have the highest adult population of millionaires by 2030, overtaking Australia by 7%. HSBC has issued The rise of Asian wealth and revealed roughly 13.4% of Singapore's adult population will be millionaires ...

Brookfield, Infratil sell mobile towers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2022
... Infratil will reinvest and own 20% of the new TowerCo, which comprises 1484 towers and covers 98% of New Zealand's population. Under the deal, the new TowerCo will sign a 20-year master services agreement with Vodafone New Zealand and commit to an additional ...

Crypto lures executives despite ongoing uncertainty

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... adoption of crypto in Africa. She said that the continent is primed for crypto adoption, with not more than 20% of the population banked. The report added that Binance has also been strategically growing its legal and compliance team to make its ambitions ...

Uncertain times calls for portfolio dynamism: Insight

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... Australia and New Zealand Bruce Murphy said complex challenges, including long-term demographic shifts of an ageing population, regulatory changes and environmental, social and governance expectations, through to macro-economic challenges posed by the ...

Inflation a greater danger than recession: Powell

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022
... resilience. "We were the first advanced economy to get back to previous levels of output and employment. The share of the population with a job in Australia is at a record high by a large margin and the current rate of saving out of income is still very ...