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Household spending drops in September: CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2024
... not led to a material rise in consumer spending. "The spending slowdown in September was expected after an early Father's Day led to consumers splashing out on household goods and hospitality for Dad. Although we saw a rise in recreation spending associated ...

Insignia Financial to trial four-day work week

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2024
Insignia Financial is set to pilot a four-day work week, a win for employees in recent Enterprise Agreement (EA) negotiations. The Finance Sector Union (FSU) and Insignia Financial have capped months of bargaining, with 68% of employees voting in favour ...

$3m super tax edges closer to reality

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024
... owners as it would seem both major parties are more interested in their own political narrative than they are in ensuring every day and younger Australians can continue to aspire to fully self-funded retirement," Tink asserted. Meanwhile, SMSF Association ...

AustralianSuper updates deceased members' investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
AustralianSuper has changed the way it invests deceased members' funds and refreshed the investment objectives for two options. As of October 1, AustralianSuper is moving account balances to the cash option after it is notified of a deceased member's ...

Australia's best-performing super fund says no to crypto

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
Colonial First State (CFS), the best-performing super fund of the last financial year, has ruled out the idea of adding crypto to its investment portfolio. Despite its popularity, with nearly five million Australians owning crypto, CFS chief investment ...

Trust in advisers reaches new high: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
... there thinking that [advice] is the luxury of the multimillionaires. We sit in front of clients - dual income Australians all day, every day. We don't want those people getting scared of seeking advice purely because of this myth," he told a media ...

Hamilton Lane adds SCOPE to product lineup

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
... is designed to offer access to senior secured private credit; immediate capital deployment, with capital fully deployed on day one; a competitive fee structure; the option for monthly subscriptions and monthly liquidity; lower investment minimums relative ...

Vision Super refreshes premium rates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... be charged 16.8 cents per week for death and TPD aged-based cover, while income protection will cost $2.99 weekly for a 90-day waiting period. On 1 January 2021, the super fund increased the cost of premiums by 17.8% for reasons that it was required ...

E&P Financial Group seeks to delist

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
... 80% from $2.50 in 2018 when it was better known as Evans Dixon. Trading volume is also stagnant, averaging 33,000 shares per day in the year to September. The board argued this makes it challenging for new investors to join the register and existing ...

Calls for independent oversight on mortgage stress

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
In August, Finder's Consumer Sentiment Tracker recorded the highest level of mortgage stress since it first began tracking in early 2019. More than two in five (42%) homeowners struggled to pay their home loan in August with an estimated 1.4 million ...