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Online investor numbers continue to climb: Investment Trends

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2022
An in-depth study of the attitudes and preferences of online equities and ETF investors in Australia reveals that the number of online investors significantly increased in the second half of 2021, albeit at a slower pace than the year prior. Investment ...

Super baby bonus could end inequality

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... flexible early childhood education and care until children start school would help boost workforce participation for women with young children, HESTA said. Women's workforce participation rate when the youngest child is 0-5 years is almost 28.2% below ...

Prime Value hires Rest portfolio manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2022
Boutique fund manager Prime Value appointed a new portfolio manager from Rest who was most recently in charge of its small-caps strategy. Melbourne-based Mike Younger was Rest's director and small-cap portfolio manager for more than five years. ...

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 ...