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Budget Direct, NobleOak partner for life insurance offering

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2022
... to supplement their group risk super fund distribution. Coles introduced "new affordable life insurance, starting at as little as $1 a week" including its 'price beat' guarantee, underwritten by MetLife. It ditched the life insurance sector less ...

$450 super threshold scrapped

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... regime. From 1 July 2022, all employers must pay superannuation guarantee contributions on all earnings, no matter how little each month. The government first announced it would scrap the $450 threshold in last year's federal budget, handed down in May. ...

AFA responds to Quality of Advice Review

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... AFA said this is critically important as in recent years the government "introduced additional layers of bureaucracy with little consideration of the impact on clients and whether they value these measures and whether they were willing to pay for them". ...

Tasmania leads economic recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... followed by Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Northern Territory. However, there is little separating the other economies based on CommSec's metrics. The January 2022 survey found that lockdowns weighed on the economic ...

Australians plough record cash into managed funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... said the late start of the Australian vaccination drive likely meant that the surge in inflows in Australia took place a little later than in the UK, Europe, and Asia. But most of the buying was still in the first half of the year. July was the most ...

How to invest in China: Capital Group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JAN 2022
... policies that encourage and incentivise domestic companies to compete with global companies. In that sense, biopharma is a little different than other industries in China that have been flagged as the next potential targets in line for heightened regulatory ...

Shoddy exam feedback fuels adviser stress

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 DEC 2021
... exam or had already unwillingly left the industry, Hume's salvo in the lead up to the 2022 federal election could be a little too late. Senator Jane Hume was contacted for this article.

Super for home deposits could ignite new boom

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... "The Tim Wilson proposal would pour fuel on the fire of our housing market at exactly the time when we are desperate for a little calm. "Super-for-housing would mean first-home buyers handing their hard-earned retirement savings to existing property ...

Sydney Airport takeover given green light

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021
... Adelaide Airport and Darwin Airport. However, ACCC chair Rod Sims said the regulator's investigation found there is very little competition between Australian airports and any lessening of competition in the space would not be substantial. "This is no ...

Partners Wealth Group launches Partners Private

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2021
... asset class, and not have to decide for themselves from a very long list of options that may be distributed by others with little discernment of quality," he said.