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Equity Trustees rapped over the knuckles by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... stated: "The Investment Manager's strategy for the fund is to invest in a diversified portfolio of liquid, fixed and floating rate green and sustainable corporate bonds." In reality, at the time - being between April and November 2024 - the fund had ...

Chalmers champions productivity, urges tax reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... but for a couple of decades. He noted that in the decade leading up to the pandemic, productivity growth was just half the rate seen two decades earlier, and that the 2022 election coincided with the largest quarterly drop in productivity in nearly half ...

DomaCom Fund names new RE

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... Securities Corporation (MSC). DomaCom Fund unitholders voted in favour of Assetora becoming the new RE with a 56% support rate as opposed to appointing BrickX, which only received 33% approval. In March, ASX-listed DomaCom changed its name to Assetora ...

Investor optimism premature, fund flows in firing line

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
While investor sentiment has improved since Liberation Day, geopolitical and tariff uncertainties will continue to deteriorate fund flows for asset managers, Morningstar predicts. The latest Industry Pulse shows how fund manager flows dwindled in the ...

Middle Australia on track for 'comfortable retirement': ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... Mary Delahunty described it, is the result of the upcoming increase to the Superannuation Guarantee (SG) From July, the SG rate will rise from 11.5% to 12%, which, according to ASFA, is expected to bolster a median wage earner's super savings by an estimated ...

Fin365 to build one-stop-shop for financial firms

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... services." The acquisition comes as more are looking for technology consultation with "overwhelming" demand at the rapid rate of innovative developments in the space. "... we have a situation where innovation is outpacing adoption, It's very difficult ...

APRA plans to remove 'unnecessary obstacles' for longevity products

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... StandardLPS 112 Capital Adequacy: Measurement of Capital (LPS 112). The illiquidity premium in LPS 112 increases the discount rate that life insurers use to calculate liabilities for certain annuities under APRA's capital framework. "Increasing the discount ...

Aussies feeling FOMO on private markets: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... as more than half (56%) lack clear understanding of the framework around private assets. Further, Australians have a lower rate (58%) of understanding of the private market compared to 65% globally. With seven in 10 (72%) expecting market volatility ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced at the National Press Club yesterday that Treasurer Jim Chalmers will convene a roundtable in August to support and shape the government's growth and productivity agenda. Albanese said the roundtable will bring ...

Super funds' private market assets grow to $400bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... Australians. SMC compared three asset classes: Australian listed equity, international listed equity, and private equity (internal rate of return). It found the performance of each returned 8.3% p.a., 12.1% p.a., and 14.7% p.a. respectively in the five ...