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Australian Unity offloads banking business

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
Australian Unity has announced the sale of its banking business to Bank Australia, with the transfer set to be complete in late 2025. Under the agreement, Bank Australia will acquire Australian Unity banking customers and their existing loans, credit ...

Liberal MP calls for SoA replacement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... government should be doing daily. How do we reduce regulation? How do we reduce red tape? Because right now, Australians and small businesses are just heaving under the weight of the regulation in this place, and the Albanese government needs to cut ...

ACCC urges parliament to pass new merger laws

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2024
... transparency and opportunity to comment on transactions before the ACCC for the wider community, including consumers and small businesses." If the legislation passes, the new regime will come into effect from 1 January 2026 with voluntary notification ...

Warakirri terminates Flinders fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024
... consistently underperformed the benchmark. Since inception, it has returned 7.9% per annum while its benchmark, the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index, returned 8.36%. The Flinders Emerging Companies Fund invested in Australian small caps and ...

Super complaints rise in FY24: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024
AFCA's Annual Review revealed the ombudsman service received a record 104,861 complaints from consumers and small businesses in 2023-24, up 8% on the year before. Of those, AFCA received 7325 superannuation complaints, a 5% increase from the previous ...

UBS terminates Future Leaders small cap fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
UBS has pulled the plug on its Future Leaders Global Small Companies Fund, less than two years after its Australian launch. The fund, which was an actively managed global strategy of 40 to 60 small cap "future leader" stocks, designed to provide investors ...

Inflation falls within RBA's target range

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... job creation and rising employment figures, the likelihood of them bringing forward a much-anticipated rate cut remains small." Meantime, State Street Global Advisors APAC economist Krishna Bhimavarapu said the fresh CPI read should hopefully help guide ...

Cole puts funds on notice as expenditure data is revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... items of expenditure may be justifiable as being in the best financial interests of members. Conversely, even relatively small items of expenditure might not be OK," Cole said. "The measure of whether expenditure is appropriate under BFID is not whether ...

Global equity, AREIT managers biggest underperformers: S&P Dow Jones

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... struggle over the short term, with 82% and 86% underperforming over one and three years respectively. Those who manage mid- and small-cap Australian equities bucked the trend. Only 56% underperformed over a 15-year period. In the short term, only 25% ...

Major global trends impacting advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
... respondents were quite positive on the prospects for active managers. "Equity markets this year have been dominated by a small number of companies. This has been a global trend, but has been particularly pronounced in the US, with the technology and ...