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Budget 2024: The Budget by numbers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has unveiled his second consecutive Budget surplus tonight of $9.3 billion this year. This was the first back-to-back surplus in nearly two decades. However, instead of celebrating, Chalmers warned pressures on the Budget would ...

Billionaire quant investing legend Jim Simons dies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
... Analyses, where he worked as a code breaker for the National Security Agency. He was dismissed for publicly opposing the Vietnam War but soon became head of the mathematics department at Stony Brook University, part of the State University of New York ...

Rest adds to C-suite with new appointment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2024
Rest has appointed Amy Murrell to the new role of chief people officer after joining the super fund in 2021 as general manager people and culture. Murrell will now report directly into Rest chief executive Vicki Doyle. "I warmly welcome Amy Murrell ...

'Just do what you say you'll do': ASIC's message to trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant says the regulator's new report on exorbitant advice fee deductions is not a criticism of advisers, rather of trustees failing basic obligations, with more still needing to be done by the reviewed funds some 12 ...

REI Super updates Conservative option

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
REI Super is rejigging its Conservative investment option and will change the name to "Growth Plus". The change will take effective from June 30, the super fund said, noting that from a risk and return perspective the option is similar to the Bonds ...

ASIC clamps down on advisers, trustees cold calling

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2024
Financial advisers, licensees, and superannuation trustees are facing the ire of ASIC after an investigation found they are profiting from boiler room tactics that convince members to switch funds. An overwhelming number of members are goaded into leaving ...

ASIC issues warning over scammers using fake AFSLs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2024
ASIC has issued a fresh warning over the increase in the sophistication of fake bond and term deposit scams. ASIC said scammers are impersonating little-known legitimate financial services businesses, often those without a website or digital footprint. ...

Super for housing 'economically reckless': SMC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
The Super Members Council (SMC) has warned that encouraging young Australians to use their superannuation for a house deposit could dramatically drive-up house prices and deplete their retirement savings. "We all desperately want more Australians to ...

Treasury shakes up foreign investing framework

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2024
Treasury is promising to make Australia a better investment hub for foreigners as it lays out comprehensive reforms to make the system "stronger, more streamlined, and more transparent". Treasurer Jim Chalmers today released an updated foreign investment ...

S&P/ASX200 tipped to hit 8300: VanEck

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2024
The S&P/ASX200 is set to rise nearly 10% to 8300 by the end of the year, VanEck predicts, as Australia will also continue to avoid the "most anticipated recession" that never happened. Australia's blue-chip stocks are poised to surge further after ...