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LifeBid bolsters team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2022
Risk advice technology solution LifeBid has added to its board of advisers. Financial adviser Katherine Hayes, who is co-founder of Hayes & Co Insurance Services and NSW and ACT director for the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), has joined the ...

Private debt and YFYS: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
Scenario analysis from Schroders indicates that an Australian private debt portfolio could have outperformed the Your Future, Your Super fixed income benchmark. The analysis performed by Schroders alternatives director Claire Smith showed it would have ...

Rest awards responsible investment mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2022
The $70 billion industry fund, Rest, has awarded an investment mandate for its ethical investment option. The fund awarded an enhanced ESG mandate to Parametric and Calvert. The mandate is designed to provide further diversification to Rest's Sustainable ...

Scammers prey on lonely hearts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2022
... scammers provide constant excuses as to why they cannot meet in person or use the video function." Westpac head of fraud Ben Young encouraged those dating online or meeting people through social media to discuss new relationships with friends and family ...

$450 super threshold scrapped

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... arbitrary and illogical. It punished hundreds of thousands of low-income Australians in part-time and casual work - including young people finding their feet in the workforce and casual employees in the gig economy - short-changing them of valuable retirement ...

Foundation rolls out financial literacy program for students

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2022
... to save money and plan for the future, however 41% indicated they have low levels of knowledge about money and finance. "Young people face increasingly complex financial choices and decisions through their school years and beyond," Stewart said. "The ...

Advised clients' major concerns in 2022

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
From skyrocketing property prices to a foreboding stock market crash, financial advisers reveal their clients' main worries in 2022. Wild swings across the local and international share markets is a concern for many clients, particularly as indices ...

UBS acquires Wealthfront, opens multicultural division

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
UBS is expanding its global wealth management offering, with a focus on affluent young people and multicultural investors. UBS has acquired Wealthfront, an automated wealth management platform serving millennial and Gen Z investors, for US$1.4 billion. ...

Top three drive ETF surge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
The Australian exchange-traded funds sector hit $137 billion in 2021 dominated by the top three players, Vanguard, BetaShares and iShares. The sector grew by a record amount of 44% or $42 billion over the course of 2021, BetaShares' 2021 Australian ...

Investors dig deeper for alternative assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
... growth rates in property across major cities. "Furthermore, secular tailwinds supported by urban migration as well as a young Gen Z workforce with a growing preference to rent vs. own are adding to this momentum. Given this sector is still at a nascent ...