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Boards should be "strap-on brains": Cosgrove

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... with their situation but said it's all part of being a leader. "We do create tall poppies in Australia, and we take a little bit of delight in cutting them down," he said. "Leaders are constantly faced with concern and nervousness. They must therefore ...

No early super release for DV survivors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... four years to eligible single parents with dependants. The initiative will enable them to buy a home with a deposit of as little as 2%. It's estimated around 125,000 single parents with dependants will be eligible for the scheme - 84% of which are fe ...

What to expect from the budget

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... ownership among young people. The Family Home Guarantee will allow single parents to purchase a home with a deposit of as little as 2%. The New Home Guarantee will see first-home buyers seeking to build a new home or purchase a newly built home able ...

Budget to boost home ownership rates

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... an additional 10,000 places. First home buyers will be able to build or purchase a newly built home with a deposit of as little as 5%. An additional $124.7 million will also be given to states and territories to bolster public housing stocks. "The government ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
... disappointing jobs numbers justify the Fed's belief that considerable slack remains in the economy and, therefore, little upward pressure on inflation. Ergo, the US Federal Reserve will continue to keep monetary policy settings highly accommodative ...

Managed funds coped with COVID-19: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... first quarter of 2020, before a moderate recovery to 6% in the second quarter of 2020. "However, this deterioration had little to no negative impact on investor redemption opportunities or on the size and frequency of distributions paid to investors," ...

Afterpay reveals US plans, economic impact

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... outlining and quantifying the value proposition of Afterpay's service to merchants. Even if the benefits are potentially a little overstated (they are based on extrapolation of survey responses and it's an Afterpay commissioned report), they ...

Cairns women disadvantaged by super gender gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
Industry Super Australia's modelling found that women from Cairns will retire with almost $40,000 less superannuation than men. These stark figures highlight the need to lift the super rate as legislated from 9.5% to 12%, ISA said. "Women on middle ...

Tax concessions failing women: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
The tax concession system is a contributing factor to gender inequality with most of the benefits flowing onto men, new research from the Australia Institute shows. Economic modelling commissioned by the Australia Institute from the Centre for Social ...

Unlisted assets deliver modest returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... "This is demonstrated by the correlation matrix that shows that MySuper investment returns across the group to have very little relationship with their volatility, the proportion of unlisted assets, autocorrelation, skewness and kurtosis," the report ...