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Australian recovery has been outstanding: La Trobe Financial

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... a select basis, think CBD cafes and internationally facing tourism businesses et cetera, but the reality is the vast majority of income support has been removed from the economy with no ill effects," he explained. "So, while there is a risk at a micro ...

Possible delay for SG rise: Hume

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... circumstances," Hume said. However, shadow minister for financial services and superannuation Stephen Jones said for the vast majority of Australians, the legislated increases are "absolutely essential" due to the low average balances at retirement. ...

UK drags Bravura performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... position to make decisions once market conditions become clearer". Wealth management's overall revenue, which is the majority of its business, declined 17% to $75.2 million year on year. The funds administration unit's revenue declined 8% to ...

Financial services eyes gig economy workers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... more than doubled since 2018. Half of the respondents are crowdsourcing, up from 21% compared to last year's survey. The majority that crowdsources believed it has been valuable to their organisations. But many financial services firms taking on gig ...

SMSFs given small LRBA win

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... dividend. The relevant income will not be taxed as non-arm's length income either. About 10% of SMSFs have LRBAs, the majority of which use the debt to acquire property. "We had previously highlighted an inconsistency between the requirements that must ...

Mergers prompt 13% fee drop

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... all mergers considered members of the junior partner (the smaller fund) experience reduced fees, as do members of the majority of senior partners," the report said. "We find that 29% of the funds in our sample can be classified as underperformers in ...

ASIC zeroes in on bad SMSF advice, conduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... better outcomes for consumers. Additionally, ASIC's unmet advice needs project has received over 480 submissions, the majority of which came from financial advisers and accountants. The SMSFA in its response expressed concerns over the costly, lengthy ...

Investors on red alert despite vaccines

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... Two-thirds expressed a more pessimistic outlook, believing that the global economy will not recover from COVID-19 in 2021. A majority (60%) said policy makers in their home country have been ineffective in their response to the pandemic. However, investors ...

Macquarie to profit off severe weather

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... and heightened demand for power. "Macquarie's Commodities and Global Markets (CGM) business physically ships gas on the majority of major pipelines across the US and overtime has built capacity to support clients by delivering power and physical commodities ...

Chief economist update: The vaccine has landed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... and a half, a few percent, maybe, in Australia," according to Victoria's chief health officer, Brett Sutton - the majority of Australians welcome the vaccine's roll-out. "The Melbourne Institute's fortnightly 'Taking the Pulse' survey ...