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Diversa culls more products

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
... bodies. These changes have increased the complexity and cost of administering superannuation funds resulting in potentially poor outcomes for members where there is insufficient scale." Meanwhile, the Allan Gray Superannuation and Retirement, Australian ...

How AMP plans to bounce back

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
... retirement space. Kicking off the company's annual general meeting this morning, chair Debra Hazelton acknowledged AMP's poor financial performance in recent years, largely because of all that was exposed by the Royal Commission. In rectifying ...

Tesla axed from the S&P 500 ESG index

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
... of Tesla identified future exposure risks from two separate events that centred around claims of racial discrimination and poor working conditions at Tesla's Fremont factory. This same analysis questioned Tesla's handing of an investigation that related ...

Superannuation not a super solution to housing affordability

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
Homeownership rates have plummeted, but unions and industry groups have had a negative response to Scott Morrison's last-ditch pitch to 'aspirational Australians'. Morrison has said that supporting first home buyers is a key part of his government's ...

AFCA adopts case merit assessments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2022
... resolution in the earlier stages of the process, he added. Untersteiner said the decision is part of AFCA's work to ensure poor conduct by paid advocates is addressed and that organisations are not deterred from defending complaints due to cost.

Pain of commodity price increases to last: World Bank

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
... input use will weigh on food production and quality, affecting food availability, rural incomes, and the livelihoods of the poor." Nations should invest in targeted safety-net programs, the World Bank said, including school feeding programs, cash transfers ...

SMSF establishments on the rise

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2022
... obligations and direct their investments, may be finding themselves facing both challenging investment conditions and time poor once again," AUSIEX chief executive Eric Blewitt said. "As a consequence, they may now be again seeing the value in and actively ...

Millennial super fund fails to GROW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... May 11. "The changes have increased the complexity and cost of administering superannuation funds resulting in potentially poor outcomes for members where there is insufficient scale," members were told. "Considering these changes and the ever-evolving ...

Stock picking dominant source of alpha: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2022
... no performance overall, the firm said, adding: "The alpha being added through buying decisions was shown to be offset by poor selling, leaving the balance close to zero." "In total, the average annualised alpha of portfolios analysed - including outperforming ...

J.P. Morgan's net income falls 42%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2022
J.P. Morgan posted a US$8.3 billion net income, a 42% year-on-year drop which missed analyst expectations. The poor result was attributed to a net credit reserve build of $US902 million compared to a net credit reserve release of US$5.2 billion in the ...