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Uncertainty propels investors towards active managers

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
Australian investors are looking to engage with active managers to navigate the heightened geopolitical volatility, according to a new survey. The Schroders Global Investor Insights Survey 2025, which covers nearly 1000 institutional investors and wealth ...

Life insurer chief executives step down, successor named

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
Acenda Group is set to welcome a group chief executive, as Kent Griffin and Tim Tez announce their departures. Former Westpac executive Chris de Bruin has been appointed chief executive of Acenda Group, subject to regulatory approvals of the merger ...

Super a 'taxpayer subsidised inheritance scheme': Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
... the next 30 years would still only impact the top 10% of income earners. "We've recommended maybe the threshold should come down to $2 million on the grounds that there's probably not a strong rationale for tax breaks on balances between $2 million and ...

ESSSuper, UniSuper spearhead member satisfaction

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... changing their main super fund in the past 12 months, and only 5% indicating an intention to switch in the next 12 months, down from 10%.

Resilient job market reduces rate cut probability: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... said the numbers don't add to the argument for more rate cuts, she still expects to see a few. While the market has dialled down chances of a July rate cut from 81% to 76%, AMP still believes the economy needs a boost from easier monetary policy and ...

Golden parachutes deflate rapidly for some, not all ASX chiefs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... Investors (ACSI) shows the golden parachute payments to ASX 100 chief executives totalled just $8.38 million in FY24. This is down from $33.52 million the previous year. It's the lowest level seen since FY10 when termination payments came in at just ...

Chalmers champions productivity, urges tax reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... contested" arena. He noted that during COVID, government spending was almost a third of our economy, which he said was brought down to a quarter - but has now settled slightly higher than that. He also pointed out that the tax-to-GDP ratio is lower now ...

Future Fund cleared to manage select asset classes in-house

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
Future Fund chair Greg Combet said that the $300 billion sovereign wealth fund has received the green light from the government to manage a portion of its portfolio internally, speaking at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event ...

Increased local, international demand drives practice valuations

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... valued at 2.5x to 3.2x, and 2.1x-2.8x for those aged between 55 and 60. However, books of risk clients aged over 60 have gone down in value, falling from a possible high of 1.8x to 1.5x. "Multiples paid for risk books or insurance-revenue-based practices ...

Investor optimism premature, fund flows in firing line

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
While investor sentiment has improved since Liberation Day, geopolitical and tariff uncertainties will continue to deteriorate fund flows for asset managers, Morningstar predicts. The latest Industry Pulse shows how fund manager flows dwindled in the ...