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Aussies underestimate life insurance's importance: Investment Trends

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2024
... preferences of consumers," Guiamatsia said. The report also highlighted that life insurance claims processing takes an average of 7.3 days within super and 5.1 days outside of it, while death benefit claims average around 10 days. Guiamatsia emphasised ...

Succession planning troubles family offices: J.P. Morgan

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2024
... ventures." In terms of operations, family offices are focused on managing costs, and recruiting and retaining top talent. The average family office costs US$3.2 million per year to operate. Large family offices with US$1 billion or more in assets under ...

Fund managers nervously await 'golden visa' reforms

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... innovative Australian companies. According to the FSC, just over 3000 SIVs were granted to primary applicants in 10 years, an average of only 313 per year. These figures do not include the applicants' spouse and dependent children. "The SIV is very ...

ESG professionals' salary guide revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... arrangements. Kaizen said it was predicting that the desire for better work-life balance would continue to increase. In terms of average salaries, depending on the level of experience and seniority salaries ranged from $79,000 to $350,000 per year. Junior ...

LIT delisting simplifies Forager: CIO

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... redemptions." In June, unitholders will decide on the fate of FOR and if it should delist from the ASX. FOR has traded at an average discount of more than 14% to net asset value in the six months before it announced the intention to delist last October. ...

S&P/ASX200 tipped to hit 8300: VanEck

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
... price appreciation has outpaced earnings growth with price to 12-month forward earnings (forward PE) above its historical average," the report read. In the year to March, technology stocks returned 51%, while real estate and financials delivered 37% ...

South Australia recognised as 'economic leader'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2024
... finance. South Australia led in real economic growth, recording an economic activity that was 9.1% above its long-term average level of output in the December quarter of 2023. New South Wales (NSW) came second with an output 8.6% above its long-term ...

Top 10% of households home to 15 times more wealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
The average household wealth of Australia's richest 10% increased by 84% in the past 20 years, while that of the lowest 60% increased significantly less. A new report from ACOSS and UNSW Sydney's Poverty and Inequality Partnership - titled Inequality ...

Income inequality elevated, spikes: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... coefficient of one denotes total inequality. Australia's Gini coefficient in 2019-20 was 0.318, which was close to the average of wealthy nations of 0.315, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), ranking the country ...

HUB24 hits $100bn milestone

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... have on the percentage of FUA held as cash," HUB24 said. "This percentage has been lower over the quarter compared to the average during 1HFY24." There are now 4382 financial advisers using the platform, the total growing 17% year on year. In February ...