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ESG bringing the family together

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing have emerged as a common interest for high net worth families who have competing interests over financial advice, risk and objectives, new research shows. Barclays Private Bank found that by 2030 ...

Imbalance in generational retirement income: RIR

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... opportunity to accumulate housing wealth as current older Australians. But if the decrease in home ownership continues, young people will need to rely on their superannuation or equities as retirement savings. "These people will forgo the benefits of ...

Underinsurance gap worsens: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... in attempting to remove duplicate accounts and unnecessary insurance through the ceasing of default insurance cover for young members, inactive accounts and low balance accounts. "The impact of this has allowed us greater clarity than ever before around ...

Fifth pillar in retirement system considered

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
The Retirement Income Review (RIR) has discussed the possibility of a fifth pillar in Australia's retirement income system based on a suggestion from the World Bank in 2008. The review noted that currently Australia has three pillars: the Age Pension ...

Spaceship launches new managed fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
Spaceship is adding a new active equities product to its managed funds lineup, with the fees waived off for first $5000 and 10bps per year after. The Spaceship Earth Portfolio is the third fund in Spaceship Voyager, its $225 million managed funds offering ...

ASIC sounds the alarm on buy-now-pay-later

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... sector, which includes companies like AfterPay and ZipPay, has shown explosive growth since 2016. Many of its users are young ASIC found 60% are 18 to 34 years old. Two in five users earn less than $40,000 a year and of these, 40% are students or work ...

Fintech to take on super with new hire

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
Stake has announced its plans to take on the super industry to give younger investors a simple, low cost way to have their own self-managed super fund (SMSF), by announcing a new executive hire. Stake announced the appointment of Kris Kitto as head ...

Millions of workers facing financial stress: AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
Severe and moderate levels of financial stress are impacting around 1.8 million Australian workers, according to AMP's latest Financial Wellness study. AMP said of those 1.8 million, nearly half have been feeling financially stressed for an average ...

Gwen Fletcher Award winner named

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... Fletcher Memorial Award. Jacob McCudden from Back to Back Financial Planners, an advice business based in the regional town of Young in New South Wales, took home the gong for semester two 2020. The Gwen Fletcher Memorial Award recognises the highest ...

COVID-19 spurs proactive investing: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
Australians are the most anxious about the impact COVID-19 will have on their portfolios but are also among the most proactive investors, according to a global comparison. Calastone's survey of 1800 retail investors from Australia, UK, USA, Germany ...