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Mercer launches aged care support service

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... 1.5 million Australians receive ageing care services and more than ever, adult children are acting as carers for the first time. "One in eight working Australians are currently acting as carers, 27% of whom are primary carers. "From our extensive consultation ...

Increase to super contribution cap

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
... non-concessional contribution caps and the general transfer balance cap are set to increase due to indexation for the first time since July 2017," minister for women's economic security, superannuation, financial services and the digital economy Jane ...

CSC pivots towards divestment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
... government fund revealed it has divested pure-play coal. CSC chief investment officer Alison Tarditi revealed for the first time that the fund has divested companies like Whitehaven Coal, that have undiversified thermal coal businesses, despite still ...

Investor population rises for global equities

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
Young Australians have flocked to trade listed investments for the first time, having set their sights on global equities, new research shows. Investment Trends 2020 2H Online Investing Report found that 435,000 Australians placed their first trade ...

Celebrating women in financial services

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... network of more than 500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women across the country who are participating. It is the first time I have seen a focus around a holistic approach to finance and addressing the cultural injustices we have had through generational ...

Chief economist update: The great Australian rebound

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... bit slower than the upwardly revised 3.4% quarterly rate in the three months to September 2020 but all the same the first time in history that the country posted back-to-back quarters of 3%-plus expansion. In the words of Ol' Blue Eyes, Australia's ...

Countdown to FASEA exam deadline

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... advisers have passed the exam, just over half the approximately 20,000 on the ASIC Financial Adviser Register. For the first time, this year FASEA offered additional support materials to help advisers pass the exam. This included a pre-exam webinar hosted ...

CommSec launches trade knowledge tool

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... executional information around how trading works as younger people show increased interest in wholesale trading. CommSec said first time traders contributed to around 10% of total trades since February 2020, compared with 4% prior to COVID-19. Additionally ...

Ian Macoun sells $83m of Pinnacle shares

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... to $30.3 million. PNI shares continued to climb up in the next three trading days, trading in the $9 range for the first time on February 5 and crossing $10 at one point on February 8. The stock closed at $9.78 yesterday. Who PNI's new shareholders ...

Lifecycle products cost members: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... they'll know if they've achieved their goals. "But that's absurd. It will be like telling parents that the first time they will ever see their child's school report is after their child has left year 12," Dunnin said. "If lifecycle products ...