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ANZ to pay $42m in insurance lawsuit

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... telephone. Slater and Gordon has also reached an agreement with the Commonwealth Bank. Commonwealth Bank will pay $50 million though said it makes no admission of liability and neither does Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society or AIA Australia. Another ...

Aussie income equities fare well amid turmoil

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... equities (-7.8%) and capital stable (-8.2%). The worst median return can be seen in small cap Australian equities at -20.1%, though this was still better than the S&P ASX Small Ords Accumulation Index which recorded -22.6%. The fund with the best return ...

Super heads support capping retirement balances

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2022
... Review examine the issue of extremely large balances, but deliberately did not recommend where that line should be drawn." Though should the government endeavour to have a conversation about balance caps, Maroney said it is one the association and its ...

Forget BRICs: Skerryvore

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
Unlike the previous periods of emerging markets euphoria, a return to prosperity is unlikely to be shortened into a simple acronym as it was during the period of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), as lines begin to blur between developed ...

SMSF growth slows, allocations shift

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
... were well positioned during COVID-19 due to a large exposure to cash, around 25%. Exposures to cash have since declined, though this is just a continuation of an existing trend - allocations to cash have been dropping since 2013 when they sat at 33%. ...

Australians worry about retirement - and maybe they should

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2022
... super balance required to achieve a comfortable retirement at age 67 as $640,000 for couples, and $545,000 for singles. Though, as previously reported by Financial Standard, ASFA's Retirement Standard was labelled too high by Super Consumers Australia. ...

Thematic ETP launches lag funds flow

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... June 2017 and $1.4 billion in the 12 months to June 30. In line with the market, quarterly net flows fell in 2022 even though new products continued to be launched. The correlation from September 2019 to June 2022 is 0.26, Rainmaker found. When quarterly ...

BlackRock expands proxy voting to retail investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2022
... on critical governance issues. He added, if executed correctly, this can strengthen the very foundations of capitalism, though he acknowledged that this revolution in shareholder democracy will take years to be fully realised.

FPA membership declines, deficit materialises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022
... has recorded a before-tax deficit of $1.2 million for the year ended June 30. FPA member numbers decreased by 7%, even though it recorded 891 new members this year. The association said this is in line with expectations due to several factors that continue ...

Australian housing slump marches on

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
... rotation in household spending from goods, cost of living pressures, and a collapse in homebuyer confidence," Oliver said. Though, he argued the biggest driver of the slump is rising mortgage rates. "The surge in fixed mortgage rates and then variable ...