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Purpose of pause to gather more data: RBA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2023
... materially draw down on their savings," it said. However, the RBA noted some households were already having to do so and only "a few" households with mortgages were at risk of having negative equity in their homes. Two other pieces of information accumulated ...

RBA reforms require bipartisan support: Chalmers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2023
... various parties about the content of the report, which contains 51 recommendations, before it is released sometime in the next few weeks. Already conferring with RBA governor Philip Lowe, he will call upon his colleagues, the Opposition and the crossbench ...

Brighter Super forges ahead with SFT

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023
... superannuation business, which was acquired in April 2022. The group is forecasting to manage $60 billion in assets over the next few years. Brighter Super won Money magazine's Best of the Best Award in 2023 for Best-value MySuper product. The group ...

Aussies happy with compulsory super: Data

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023
... "Australians' expectations of retirement are clear; they want to be comfortable and the move to 12% super guarantee over the next few years will help more people to achieve that," McCrea stated.

Digitisation an immediate area of growth: Fund manager

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2023
... thing that's changed the most in terms of new developments has really been around AI. For example, Chat GPT was launched a few months ago, and that's been the fastest growing product in history in terms of user adoption," he said. Already, New ...

RBA steadies cash rate, flags more hikes

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... Zealand and global commodities Paul Bloxham believes the RBA is done with hiking the cash rate and likely pause for the next few quarters. "Our view has been that the economy would pass a turning point, into a downswing, around the turn of the year and ...

Curbing super tax breaks for the wealthy: Consultation opens

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2023
The government has opened consultation on its proposal to increase the concessional tax rate for superannuation balances over $3 million. Under the proposal, individuals with super balances over $3 million would see their tax rates on earnings double ...

Australians want super safeguard: ISA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2023
According to new data, 80% of Australians agree that super is for providing financial security in retirement and support law changes that will deter early release. As the government's consultation on legislating super objectives closes, Industry ...

BT Super, Mercer merger completes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2023
... beginning." Mercer Super chief executive Tim Barber reinforced the commitment to growth, adding that Mercer Super is one of the few funds with global scale. Mercer Super is also currently in the process of merging with Lutheran Super. "The merger of ...

We need to be ready: APRA

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2023
... he said. Lonsdale explained as the speed of crises accelerates, regulators have less time to respond and therefore noted a few areas which APRA will target. "It may be that we need to look more closely at concentration risk in deposits and adjust requirements ...