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New impact fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... investments Diana Tjoeng said the new fund will address the gender bias in the financial sector and its engagement with small businesses. "Small businesses in the Asia Pacific form the backbone of developing economies and single mothers and other individual ...

Australia can benefit from China's economic growth amid trade war: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2025
... "There is an incredible amount of firepower that consumers have sitting in their banks to propel investment in small businesses and consumption, and that's what is really going to get the economy going again." He said the Chinese economy is now representing ...

Iress hires wealth tech experts

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... SEEK. Most recently, he was the head of engineering at Xero, where he developed mobile solutions that support small businesses to manage their finances. Iress' chief executive of wealth APAC Kelli Willmer welcomed the duo to the firm. "They both ...

Outlook favourable for practice valuations: Guide

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... much more discerning when it comes to fee per client - but they should continue to trade at a premium to other small businesses. According to Centurion Market Makers' Advice Practice Acquisition, Sale & Valuation Guide for 2025, demand is increasing ...

Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2025
... could leverage such returns to promote fiscal sustainability, lessen the burden of taxes on American families and small businesses, establish long-term economic security, and promote economic and strategic leadership internationally. It also noted that ...

Super admin providers face reckoning in 2025: Finura

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... those arrangements don't really have any cost-to-serve advantages for them. They still have to handhold the small businesses and do a lot of the work. They are mostly historical deals made when adviser numbers were back at 25,000. So, the software ...

Half of advice, super complaints result in no remedy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2024
... consumers." AFCA said in 2023-24, a record of nearly 105,000 complaints were escalated to it by consumers and small businesses. This was more than double the number of complaints to its three predecessor schemes in their final year before AFCA opened ...

Fair Work ruling, ASIC put offshoring arrangements on notice

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... offshoring solutions for Australian and UK financial services firms, said the determination could significantly impact small businesses that directly employ or contract overseas workers online. "Fair Work Australia has ruled it as like a sham contract ...

US election: Global investors fear inflation boom

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
... win, especially if his administration rolls back regulation and takes a softer stance on M&A," Murray said. "Small businesses have been cautious leading up to the election, so more clarity on policy may prompt them to rebuild inventories and step-up ...

Liberal MP calls for SoA replacement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... should be doing daily. How do we reduce regulation? How do we reduce red tape? Because right now, Australians and small businesses are just heaving under the weight of the regulation in this place, and the Albanese government needs to cut red tape..." ...