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Australia's billionaire boom branded 'morally wrong' by Oxfam

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... people has grown by 160% to $667.8 billion over the past decade. Property is the primary engine of their riches, followed by retail, investments, and mining/resources. Oxfam also revealed that the average 'Rich Lister' now holds more than 116,000 times ...

Minimum wage to rise 3.5%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... modern awards. Most employees who will benefit from the rise work in the accommodation and food services, community, care, retail, arts, administration, recreation and healthcare sectors. "The continuation of this inflationary episode has meant that ...

Life insurers report another profitable quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... income protection insurance or IDII in total during 2023-24. Of those, 938 related to group superannuation and 530 came from retail insurance. Delays in claim handling was the top issue in both retail and group income protection insurance. Delays accounted ...

Industry funds feast, retail funds snack, corporate funds freefall

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... statistics have lifted the lid on the ongoing battle for Australia's retirement assets; industry funds charged forward, retail funds made gains without breaking into a sprint, while corporate funds retreated further. Industry funds expanded their war ...

AMP super class action finally hits court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... Flexible Lifetime Super accounts, MySuper accounts, and overcharging investment fees on cash and term deposits. "No other retail fund was charging investment fees on cash or term deposits like AMP," Slater and Gordon said. The products called into question ...

ASIC accuses Kalkine of providing unlicensed advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... is an equity research house which produces stock analysis and buy, hold and sell reports via a subscription service for retail investors. It operates in Australia, Canada, the UK and US. ASIC has imposed new licence conditions on Kalkine's Australian ...

DASH partners with S64

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... reporting and customised private market product solutions for a range of client segments - from family offices through to retail investors. "Our partnership with S64 is an exciting milestone for DASH. The shift to private markets is structural and advisers ...

Bell Asset Management names head of retail sales

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... held various executive roles across AUSIEX, Commonwealth Bank, Colonial First State and Asgard, bringing deep expertise in retail distribution and adviser engagement. Bell AM chief executive Michael Lovett described Stewart as a "highly respected figure" ...

Vanguard Super leads in organic growth: KPMG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... momentum," KPMG said, increasing their market share by 10.4% - from 29.6% in 2020 to 40% in 2025. During the same period, retail funds shrank from 24.5% to 22.7%. AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust maintained their dominance in both AUM ...

Size of super impacting capital markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... said. "One thing that we haven't heard much of is the ability of us as an industry and us as a market to engage with retail investors. How do we grow the next generation of investors as much as we grow the next generation of Australian companies? ...