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JANA wins mandate from public sector super fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... services, attributing it to a diverse clientele seeking institutional-quality investment opportunities and implementation. "In today's volatile market environment investors need to be equipped with a well-diversified investment portfolio across a range ...

Super tax is a 'wealth tax': Taylor

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... Labor's Division 296 Tax is an unindexed wealth tax." Citing treasury numbers, Taylor said that an average earning 21-year-old today will pay double in taxes on retirement savings based on this new policy. Together with Labor's other changes ...

ASIC vigilant on bad SMSF advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... to rollover their superannuation into newly created SMSFs and lend those funds to two companies where he was a director. Today, ASIC said it accepted a court-enforceable undertaking from former financial adviser Shivdeep Jaidka after he failed to provide ...

Crypto fintech needed AFSL, court says

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024
ASIC has had its first court win in relation to cryptocurrency, with fintech Block Earner found to have offered a financial product to retail investors without a licence. However, it was a mixed outcome for the regulator, with another allegation quashed. ...

ASIC chases 757 adviser registrations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2024
... AFS Licensee. "ASIC encourages relevant providers to check their registration status on the Financial Advisers Register today to ensure that they are recorded as 'registered'," ASIC warned. "If they are not recorded as 'registered', they ...

Betashares to launch Nasdaq ETFs

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024
... ETFs have become an increasingly important part of advisers' investment strategies, in part due to market uncertainty. "Today, ETFs continue to offer a diversified, low-cost exposure to an index or specific thematic, allowing advisers and their clients ...

Vale Jason Milosevski

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024
... against this horrible disease called pancreatic cancer, was a true reflection of the man that he was," his family wrote. "Today we have lost a devoted husband, a loving father to two beautiful boys, a son, a brother, and a friend. "Jason will forever ...

RBA anticipated to delay interest rate cuts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024
HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham says that despite widespread market enthusiasm for imminent central bank interest rate cuts, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is likely to hold off on such cuts for the foreseeable future. Bloxham said that the RBA ...

Super funds lack data for effective retirement assistance: Study

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2024
... retirees and pre-retirees should have guaranteed lifetime income in their retirement income mix, compared to, at most, 8% today, representing $145 billion of additional superannuation balance for over two million members aged 55-74. "There is already ...

Dirigere Advisory rebrands to Intelligent Planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... Intelligent Planning managing director Phil Osborne said: "We saw a widening gap in the financial planning landscape between what today's professional financial adviser community really wants from a licensee and what the market currently delivers. Intelligent ...