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Fixing retirement system an election priority: Grattan

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
... would likely be ineligible for the Age Pension benefiting the most. Grattan believes the $3 million super tax is a good start, but that the threshold should be lowered to $2 million, and the tax raised to 35% while the income threshold is dropped from ...

Deficit to reach $26bn: Deloitte

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
The federal government's pre-election budget is expected to unveil an underlying cash deficit of $26.1 billion for the 2025 financial year, while revenues will deteriorate by $11.3 billion over four years, a new report from Deloitte shows. The deficit ...

Australia must focus on 'friend-shoring': UNSW

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... growth was also flagged by the research, which pointed out that Australia's productivity performance has been flat since the start of COVID-19 in 2020. " With changing global and domestic conditions, it is imperative we address productivity challenges ...

US equities face volatility as growth risks mount: Morgan Stanley

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025
... growth risks. "This fits with our long-standing view that policy would likely be sequenced in a more growth-negative way to start the year before lower deficits/rates and less crowding out of the private economy benefit the market later in the year- ...

Data is our biggest challenge: Aware Super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025
... governed data, your need for [more] data kind of explodes, because suddenly people are saying, 'I trust this data, I can now start making decisions based on what I'm getting as output'. "We're still in the infancy of that, but I've already ...

Gender parity in financial services an economic imperative

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2025
... who provides financial literacy presentations at schools, wants to eventually reach out to ethnic migrant communities and start delivering financial literacy education to women on topics like property investing, what the superannuation system means and ...

Beware creep of cancel culture into super fund governance: Lawyer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
The prudential regulator is calling for the consideration of perceived conflicts of interest and reputational risks when appointing directors, and while it's easy to think of cases where this would be appropriate, Gilbert + Tobin partner Luke Barrett ...

Large financial firms falling behind on AI adoption

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... long putting it off and not trusting their employees with its use, but now they have a much bigger task ahead of them to start using it." Kollo said because everyone has a different level of understanding when it comes to AI, large financial institutions ...

Former AMP licensees rebranded as Akumin

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... Charter Financial Planning. AMP Financial Planning will be renamed Akumin Financial Planning. "It is really exciting to start this next chapter with a new brand, and we remain focused on supporting Akumin advisers through this transition," Fortnum chief ...

Aussie dividends underperform on global scale: Janus Henderson

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... for the first time. "In so doing they are proving that they are just like successful companies before them in that as they start to mature they begin to generate surplus cash which they can hand back to their investors. These companies are giving global ...