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Budget deficit to balloon to $42.1bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... management has delivered a stronger Budget, with the first back-to-back surpluses in nearly two decades and smaller deficits and lower debt compared to the 2022 Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO)," Budget documents said. "The Budget position ...

New tax cuts for every Australian 'a complete joke': UNSW

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... Medicare levy low-income threshold by 4.7%, effective from 1 July 2024. Budget documents said this should help over a million lower-income Australians either stay exempt or continue paying a reduced Medicare levy rate. The government will also extend ...

DBFO reforms package 'pretty disappointing': FAAA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... haven't found a material difference between these obligations and those for SoAs...," she said. "We were hoping for a much lower level of prescription, and greater recognition of professional judgement, as well as indications as to how the other ...

Oreana targets early education assets with new fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... education assets which allows us to mitigate risks and capitalise on opportunities with greater confidence." He believes lower interest rates will also deliver "additional returns" to investors. "We have all the elements to deliver a market leading fund ...

Mine Super and TWUSUPER merger official

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... members, a merged entity means a reduction in annual administration fee by 50%, while direct expense recovery fees will lower by 36%. They will also see at least a 2% reduction on insurance premiums. Mine Super and TWUSUPER signed a successor fund transfer ...

State Super: In decline but doing fine

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... to reduce volatility," he said. Livanas said one way to lessen volatility is to take risk off the table, which results in lower returns. Another approach is to use downside protection derivatives, which does pay off when markets fall. But since this ...

TAL nabs AIA strategy lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
TAL Austalia has recruited a senior investment strategy and portfolio manager from rival AIA Australia. John Archer was at AIA for two years, joining from CommInsure where he spent 17 years, most recently as the executive manager of investment strategy. ...

BlackRock rebalance sparks record-high ETF trades on ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... allocations to European, Japanese, and Chinese equities between 1% and 3%. While Australian bonds lost out with close to a 5% lower allocation, BlackRock leaned favourably towards global bonds which gained 5% within its Enhanced Strategic Balanced model ...

RBA forecasting has been 'terrible': Yarra Capital Management

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... that they could return inflation to target at the same time as preserving most of the gains in the labour market with a lower cash rate, they agreed that this was not yet assured," the RBA minutes said. "As a result, members expressed caution about the ...

Rest kickstarts in-house global equities trading

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... million members. By expanding our internal capabilities, we expect to continue delivering strong long-term performance at a lower cost," Singh said. "There has been considerable focus on developing the investment philosophy to underpin an active stock-picking ...