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Investment bonds a good alternative to Wills: GDG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
... she said citing CoreData. With investment bonds, when the investor dies, the beneficiaries can receive the payout in as little as two weeks. She said Generation Life receives about 41% share of inflows into investment bonds.

Chief economist update: BOE not letting its guard down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... from the Exchequer from a month earlier. "Since the time of that forecast, developments in global GDP growth have been a little stronger than anticipated, and the substantial new US fiscal stimulus package should provide significant additional support ...

AustralianSuper introduces insurance changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
... hoard of super funds - Living Super, HESTA, MTAA Super and LUCRF Super to name just a few - for increasing premiums for little or no value. AustralianSuper group executive of strategy, brand and reputation Sarah Adams said: "In uncertain times, insurance ...

Admin fees could balloon from BFID

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2021
... premature to comment on the potential impact of the BFID on marketing and other activities. "The proposed BFID will likely have little impact on how we support our members but will increase a fund's administrative burden and the cost of record keeping ...

Women need to rebuild super: AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... wealth. It's designed around the concept of 'compounding', which dictates that through a sensible investment strategy, a little now multiplies over the years into much more." Anderson said Australians should be looking to their funds for education and ...

New investment manager enters Aussie market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... required by international investors. "We expect to continue delivering strong returns for our investors in areas they have had little access. For instance, most global managers rarely stray from benchmark included securities and US managers are becoming ...

US upbeat on stimulus, vaccination

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... blown out its balance sheet by about US$304 trillion, making its initiatives during the Global Financial Crisis "look a little small", he said. One question he is asked frequently is: what potential problems will this mountain of debt create? "Unfortunately ...

Shock statistics on gender gap on boards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... new post-COVID-19 employment environment. As the nation's recovery progresses, we may well see male wages increase with little or no positive improvement in the wages of women. If this happens, it is feasible that the gender pay gap will increase." When ...

Chief economist update: Amber alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... past its periodic averages - five-year (17.9 times); 10-year (15.9 times); 15-year (15.2 times); long-term (14.4 times). A little bit more and the S&P 500 P/E ratio would hit the peak overvaluation of 23.4 times recorded on the 1st of September 2000 ...

To keep or not to keep JobKeeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... three months earlier. The latest employment number has reduced the total jobs lost this year from more than 922,000 to a little less than 64,000 - a 93% improvement. Further, the annual rate of decline in total employment has eased to 0.5% in December ...