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Payday super timing, deliberate: Chalmers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023
... get on board with the new framework. "I'd suspect super funds would be very happy if it was even earlier, maybe 2025 rather than 2026," he commented. He concurred that employees should also have sufficient time. "I don't know enough about payroll ...

Changing retirement landscape needs regulatory framework: Actuaries Institute

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023
... existing three-pillar system," said Gale. "People are also often after some general guidance about retirement planning rather than comprehensive financial advice, which can be hard to get and expensive. A help guidance and advice framework would make ...

Responsible investment key to wealth transfer conversation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023
... investment into the value proposition are seeing that tangible benefits from that and that's the key takeout for us. Rather than just reacting and responding to intergenerational wealth transfers, it should be about inviting conversations and proactively ...

'Should have known better': AAT tells auditor

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... "did not apply to SMSFs because the relevant provisions appear on their face to be directed to members of an audit team rather than individual auditors." Documents show she also "suggested in cross-examination that her misunderstanding was compounded ...

Buffett outlines plans for Berkshire Hathaway

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023
... disposition of his assets will be an open book. "No "imaginative" trusts or foreign entities to avoid public scrutiny but rather a simple will available for inspection at the Douglas County Courthouse," he said. In May, Buffett named Berkshire vice chair ...

ASX calls time on mFund settlement service

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023
... previously suggested that mFunds struggle to capture capital wasn't indicative of an inherent flaw in the service, rather it's a reflection of the astounding success of the ETP market. "It's not like we have people at our doorstep criticising ...

AustralianSuper slams Brookfield's Origin Energy bid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
... retirement," it said. "The challenge facing the nation as we work towards net zero by 2050 is not a lack of capital but rather a shortage of good quality investment opportunities."

Scarcity Partners brings private equity investment model to Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
... managers. Scarcity Partners founding partner Adrian Whittingham explained that an opportunity lies in investing in managers rather than their funds. The firm has found over 35 potential investment opportunities totalling more than $1 billion. "High growth ...

SEC sues Kraken exchange again

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
... of $30 million. "We allege that Kraken made a business decision to reap hundreds of millions of dollars from investors rather than coming into compliance with the securities laws. That decision resulted in a business model rife with conflicts of interest ...

Interest rate hikes are working: Bullock

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2023
... call "intertemporal substitution"," she said, meaning that as interest rates rise, Australians are incentivised to save rather than spend. Bullock pointed to the supply shocks and demand factors that she must consider if and when interest rates must ...