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What advisers need to know: BT

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... meet FASEA requirements in isolation. Especially with the extension to the FASEA requirements not yet passed. "There is a little hesitation about whether that extension will pass," Ashenden said. In weekly podcasts, Ashenden and his team are addressing ...

Charities call for further stimulus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... Without thriving charities, our productivity and wellbeing is at risk." CSI chief executive Kristy Muir said charities have little liquidity to fall back on in times of crisis, as they already run on very tight margins. "Governments, philanthropists ...

Stop guessing games: AMP Capital

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... impossible task and can tie investors up in knots," Steele said. "In the short term markets are driven by speculation with little connection to underlying fundamentals, (earnings, dividends, cashflows). It's hard to get an edge here." However, he said ...

Enquiry into lacklustre employee share schemes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... to understand why the use of employee share schemes is still so incredibly low in Australia," Falinski said. "It makes little sense. Giving employees, in both startups and established businesses, the opportunity to share in the growth of companies that ...

Expats sweat as main residence CGT cut-off looms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... (including foreign investors and expats) aimed to make housing more affordable by reducing foreign investment; however, it did little to recognise Australian home owners who had followed opportunities abroad. "In my experience, expats are the ones that ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone contraction heads from mild to severe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... financial markets... The Commission is proposing new taxes and levies to fund recovery spending." All well and good, every little bit helps. However, fiscally responsible members -- Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden - are against the idea ...

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... anywhere between 60% to 80% exposure to growth assets, according to Cor Capital executive director Tom Rachcoff. "It's little wonder they were shocked in March at their portfolios' growth risk exposures," he said. "It happened during the Global Financial ...

Small caps soar amid accelerated revolution

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... companies are a great way to play that," he said. "The large companies in Australia are dominated by banks; you may get a little bit of capital appreciation if you bought some now, because they are still one of the few sectors that hasn't really ...

Global dividends to fall 15%: Janus Henderson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... number of other major companies have already cut payouts. "With so much uncertainty, any forecast for dividends would have little value, so Janus Henderson is withdrawing its 2020 estimate," it said. "Instead the team introduces a range based on a best ...

FASEA blame game on in earnest

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... important to Australians, I am extremely disappointed the passage of this bill has been frustrated by the Labor Party - in little more than a cheap political stunt," Hume said. Hume characterised Labor's decision to attach an amendment as a "betrayal" ...