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Super fund satisfaction mixed, SMSFs unhappy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... According to Roy Morgan, retail funds saw the biggest increase in ratings, recording a 2.2% rise year on year. However, it did little to boost the retail sector's overall score which came in at just 58.7%. Satisfaction with industry funds also rose ...

Private equity weathers COVID-19 crisis: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... withstand crises such as COVID-19 and also deliver strong returns." With the firm's survey revealing that the crisis had little impact on the capital structures of portfolio companies and forced exits by private equity firms, Willis Towers Watson ...

Financial institution charged over Epstein scandal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... FBME to be a high-risk client that required annual enhanced anti-money laundering checks. "Despite these checks, there was little evidence that FBME improved the quality of its controls over several years." Continual failings by FBME in meeting US standards ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... sanctions have forced China to look inwards into its domestic economy and away from trade negotiations with that spoiled, little rich kid currently sitting at the Oval Office. In the bigger scheme of things, Australia's coronavirus second wave is ...

Rio Tinto decision exposes limits of super engagement

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
A controversial promotion at mining giant Rio Tinto has demonstrated how even the biggest of super funds hold very little sway when it comes to engaging with companies they invest in. Peter Toth, formerly chief executive of OM Holdings, was promoted ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... time but also from a once-in-a-generation land price windfall. In exchange for these gains, they have contributed very little towards essential services and critical infrastructure via property taxation," the draft report reads. Others who have moved ...

Chief economist update: A tale of two quarters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way..." -- 'A Tale of Two Cities' A little tinkering with the first paragraph of Charles Dickens' classic novel and we have Wall Street's story of the first six ...

Super reform should happen, but not now: Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... likely to do them badly. In government, as in business, trying to do too much at once is usually a recipe for doing too little."

AMP approved product list under fire

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... spokesperson for AMP has since told Financial Standard there is no fee to be on an AMP approved product list. "We roughly have a little more than 1000 products on our approved product list, 60% of those products are external. Our commandment is to provide ...

Trust in advisers wanes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... best interests, however just 37% actually believe they do. This has dropped from 44% in 2018. That said; there appears little risk of advisers losing their clients to robo-advice, with 81% of investors trusting advice from a human over that of a robo-adviser ...