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SMSF auditors in firing line

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... auditor will also have to provide a copy of the conditions to their professional association, complete specific courses of study, including in ethics and audit and pass the SMSF auditor competency exam. ASIC praised the Australian Taxation Office for ...

Pension assets climb towards $50 trillion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... Kong 9.2% and the US 7.8%. These latest figures are according to the Thinking Ahead Institute's Global Pension Assets Study. Australia remains one of the largest pension markets in the world as part of the P7 (the seven largest markets for pension ...

How to lose a mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... of their assets to external managers, with a majority using more than 20 managers. How long it takes to win a mandate The study also looked at how long it took for institutional investors to award a mandate, discovering new mandates can be awarded in ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus threatens Tokyo Olympics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... Japan's Olympic hopes will be dashed - the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is set to commence on July 24. A Bank of Japan (BOJ) study, titled Economic Impact of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, proclaimed that: "The government's target of 20 million foreign ...

FPA partners with Deakin University

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... recognition of CFP coursework approved by FASEA in August 2019, making financial advisers who had undertaken this further study eligible for two credits to use towards their higher education requirements.

SG increase means lower wages: Grattan

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... life span of enterprise agreements. Brendan Coates, Grattan's household finances program director and lead author of the study said Grattan's analysis proves the government should desert the legislated increase in the superannuation guarantee to 12%. ...

Chief economist update: Equity markets struck by coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) of the early 2000s stopped after 775 deaths? Reuters too. It pointed to a 2008 study conducted by the IMF that predicted that an influenza pandemic could cost US$3 trillion and a 5 per cent fall in world output. ...

Opt-out super to hit workers: ISA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... "successful" compulsory and universal super system, in addition to hitting them with extra taxes. According to an ISA case study, a 30-year-old working mum earning $50,000 who spends time out of the workforce to raise children would stand to lose nearly ...

ISA slams ANU research as SG debate rears its head again

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... safety net is in place." The industry super lobby fired back, poking holes in the methodology of ANU's work and claiming study came to "dangerous conclusions based on flawed assumptions". "The researchers have created a fantasy world where every Australian ...

Industry fund looks within for co-chair

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... "XPO's underperformance can arguably be attributed to its poor governance and labour practices. It is an interesting case study to illustrate the proposition that firms who lag on ESG imperatives can often constitute a poor investment over the long ...