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CFS delivers 16.6% returns for growth members

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Colonial First State (CFS) announced impressive returns for its balanced and growth equivalent funds throughout 2024. The FirstChoice Employer Super balanced option returned 13.8% in 2024, while the FirstChoice Employer Super growth option delivered ...

Platinum AUM inches to $11bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Platinum Asset Management grew its assets under management (AUM) in the last month of 2024 to end up with $11.1 billion. The fund manager made a net gain of $93 million during the month of December despite experiencing outflows of $289 million. Some ...

Australian economy on the up in 2025: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Vanguard expects Australia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will gradually recover and increase by 2% in 2025 after experiencing its slowest growth rate in 32 years during 2024. Vanguard said this improvement will come despite the overhang of sticky inflation ...

Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Investors have head into the New Year with many of the same concerns they had at the start of 2024, with interest rates and inflation to dominate once again. Last November, RBA governor Michele Bullock indicated the central bank views its settings as ...

Investors should stay the course in 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
Despite some critical short-term influences markets are currently withstanding, Morningstar portfolio manager Bianca Rose is advising investors to tread into the new year carefully without committing their investments solely to those events. Rose told ...

Government bolsters funding for payday super reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
The government has announced an additional allocation of $401 million over four years to help implement payday super, due to begin 1 July 2026 - requiring employers to pay their employees' superannuation entitlements at the same time as wages. Advocacy ...

The productivity bubble has burst: Productivity Commission

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
The latest national account figures indicate that Australia's productivity growth remains in the doldrums, prompting the Productivity Commission to declare revitalising productivity growth as a national priority. September quarter figures showed ...

Productivity Commission tasked with five new inquiries

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
The Productivity Commission has been tasked with five new inquiries focused on identifying ways to materially boost Australia's productivity. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the aim of the inquiries is to lift incomes, standards of living and create more ...

Colonial First State completes group insurance review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
Following a review of its group insurance arrangements, Colonial First State (CFS) has renewed its mandate with AIA. Under the renewed agreement, AIA will continue to provide insurance cover for the 200,000 CFS FirstChoice Employer Super, Essential ...

Unemployment drops below 4%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points to 3.9% in November, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). "With employment rising by 36,000 people and the number of unemployed decreasing by 27,000 people, the ...