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Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... immutable and continues to rage even as some predict it will never even come to fruition. All in all, Quiggin said AUKUS "is a big mistake". "We could have got the same military benefits from the French deal much cheaper, but almost certainly, there's ...

Super fund fees exploit Australians' low financial literacy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... than half don't understand how the total fees they pay affects their balance. "The amount being paid in fees can make a big difference to how much you have when you retire. That's why it's so important Australians are given all the information they ...

Macquarie AM reshuffles real assets team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024
Macquarie Asset Management has consolidated three of its listed real assets businesses and reshuffled the investment team in a bid to drive synergies available to the asset class. The asset manager said folding natural resources, listed infrastructure ...

Mutual Trust adds three partners

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024
... private and operating family businesses, estate and succession planning. Before the family office, Henderson worked for several Big Four and mid-tier chartered accounting firms where he provided specialist tax advice to private business and family trusts. ...

Brighter Super increases retirement bonus

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024
The retirement bonus received by Brighter Super members just got bigger, with the fund increasing the incentive it pays to retirees who transition to a pension account. The Retirement Reward paid by Brighter Super has risen from 0.5% in FY23 to 0.8% ...

ETF winners and losers in September

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 OCT 2024
VanEck has revealed last month's best and worst performing exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as the industry hits $220 billion. The highest returns came from the VanEck China New Economy ETF, which climbed 21.4%, followed by the iShares China Large-Cap ...

FAAA announces 2024 awards finalists

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
... of Australian Life Insurers (CALI) named its 2024 ReCALIbrate grant recipients. Nicole Bendeich, Calibre Life; Janice Choo, Big Oak Financial Services; Nikki Szprinc, DC Advice; Rebecca Pritchard, Rising Tide Financial Services; and Samantha Greene ...

MFF Capital Investments to acquire Montaka Global Investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
MFF Capital Investments has flagged its intention to acquire Montaka Global Investments in a bid to sharpen its "research focus and capabilities". The acquisition is expected to be finalised by early 2025, pending final agreements. Montaka Global's ...

'Alarming' figure in retirement research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2024
Only a third (32%) of Australians believe they would be able to save for their retirement without compulsory superannuation, according to a new survey from AustralianSuper. A third of Millennials (33%) and Gen X'ers (32%), as well as nearly one-in-five ...

Labor delivers another budget surplus, but productivity stalls

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The final budget outcome for 2023/24 came in as a surplus of $15.8 billion - or 0.6% of GDP - for the underlying cash balance - an improvement of $6.5 billion on the previous estimates. The better-than-expected outcome was driven mainly by the payments ...