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TAL names retirement and wealth lead

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024
... to medical test requirements for insurance applications. With the changes, TAL said it will streamline and significantly lower the mandatory medical testing rate for new customers through direct application or an adviser.

Inflation falls within RBA's target range

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... 2.8%, the RBA has specified on numerous occasions that it will not be persuaded by temporary measures that artificially lower the headline inflation figure," McCormack said. "In this case, the government's energy rebates. The preferred inflation ...

Qantas Super lowers investment fees, updates cash option

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
Qantas Super announced changes to its Cash option, updated its exclusions criteria, and lowered investment fees for members. The Cash option's objective is to achieve a return after tax and investment fees equal to the Bloomberg AusBond Bank Bill ...

Morningstar flags governance issues, leadership turnover at Cbus

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... material private market transactions. This outweighs positive steps that Cbus has made to translate its growing scale into lower investment fees in recent years and also the launch of a new insurance offering for members..." Morningstar also noted Cbus ...

CFS unveils fund manager, fee changes to FirstChoice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... investment fees for some managers. The BlackRock Global Liquid Alternatives in Wholesale Personal Super, for example, will lower fees from 1.73% p.a. to 1.29% p.a. Magellan's Infrastructure option fees will go from 1.56% p.a. to 1.30% p.a. Also from ...

BlackRock lowers management fees on ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... management fees charged were reduced from 0.45% to 0.29% per annum. BlackRock said the changes were made after it decided to lower the outperformance targets for both funds. "We are reducing our management fees in recognition of the lower outperformance ...

Australia a top destination for international investment: QIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024
... offsets a favourable public sector debt position where gross government debt is just 55% of GDP, which is significantly lower than the global average of 85%," Peter said. "Clearly, Australia's debt imbalance ranking is an area in which Australia has ...

Major global trends impacting advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... such as utilities, REITS, biotechnology, and alternative energy are potentially more interesting in this environment of lower inflation and interest rates. This is the type of situation where active managers can be nimble in allocating earlier to those ...

BlackRock lowers fees on two funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024
... management fees charged were reduced from 0.45% to 0.29% per annum. BlackRock said the changes were made after it decided to lower the outperformance targets for both funds. "We are reducing our management fees in recognition of the lower outperformance ...

Operational risk reserve targets trimmed for larger funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2024
... with the guidance, APRA is no longer proposing that RSE licensees must engage with APRA prior to adopting a target amount lower than 0.25% of FUM," it said. "APRA's approach is intentionally simple, including an intent to reduce regulatory burden ...