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Price dislocations pave way for active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... Management managing director Regina Liu said. "That is also a time when we advocate for active investment management, because it means that there's a lot of opportunities happening in the market at this particular junction," she told the 2024 Stockbrokers ...

Calls for a simplified path to financial advice

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... lauded the fact that instead of needing a second degree to meet the financial planning education standard, the proposal means members may only need to do some bridging units. He said this is important because people often don't start their education ...

Budget 2024: The Budget by numbers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... instead of the more than one trillion we inherited - meaning debt is $152 billion lower," Chalmers said. "A stronger Budget means we save around $80 billion in interest costs over the decade. These are the dividends of our responsible economic management." ...

Budget 2024: Cost of living relief takes centre stage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... co-payment for everyone with a Medicare card and a five-year freeze for pensioners and other concession cardholders. This change means that no pensioner or concession card holder will pay more than $7.70 (plus any applicable manufacturer premiums) for ...

AFCA finds more Dixon Advisory victims

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... 2023. The terms of the cancellation require Dixon Advisory to maintain membership of AFCA until at least 8 April 2024. "This means it will still be possible to lodge a complaint with AFCA, because Dixon Advisory remains a member, until at least that ...

Quality of retirement does not depend on super balance: Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... suggested either increasing the cap to $100,000 or $150,000, or removing the cap altogether. "Rampant inflation under Labor means that the Committee has had to re-examine previously proposed thresholds and caps, to ensure the policy can be effective ...

Morningstar unsure if KKR's Perpetual bid benefits shareholders

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... combined valuation of $1.5 billion or $13.60 per share, for the wealth management and corporate trust businesses. "This means that for the deal to be accretive to our fair value estimate, associated costs and taxes need to be below $630 million. While ...

Advisers must unite for major reforms: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... reforms," she told Financial Standard. "I think it's a meaningful and important approach to take to this change, because it means that we can be a unified voice to the extent that we find those similarities and our chance of then implementing the ...

ASIC clamps down on advisers, trustees cold calling

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
... processes to ensure they are not benefiting at their expense. "This does not mean trustees need to check every SOA, but it means they should have processes in place to identify practices that may be resulting in superannuation balance erosion, including ...

ART reduces admin fees for high balance accounts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
... with an account balance over $500,000. "For Super Savings members with a percentage administration fee of 0.10% p.a., this means the maximum percentage administration fee you'll pay each year will reduce from $800 p.a. (0.10% x $800,000 balance) to $500 ...