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HNWI collecting activity stoops: Knight Frank

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 29 FEB 2024
... slew of record-breaking sales, luxury investment markets weakened in 2023, according to the Knight Frank Luxury Investment Index (KFLII). For only the second time, the KFLII, which tracks the performance of 10 popular investments of passion, ended the ...

Vanguard Super hits $1bn, soft launches pension product

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
Vanguard Super has amassed $1 billion in funds under management in just over 12 months, while delivering the best-performing Lifecycle MySuper option of 2023 and quietly rolling out a retirement offering at half the cost of the incumbents'. Speaking ...

Super assets reach $3.7tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... quarter. This high quarterly return was driven by strong growth in financial markets, particularly equities as the ASX300 index finished the quarter near all-time highs, APRA said, noting that the ROR for the year ending in December 2023 was 9.5%. Total ...

Copia seals distribution partnership

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
Copia Investment Partners has won a partnership with HSBC Asset Management to distribute a strategy to retail investors. Copia will make the HSBC Global Infrastructure Equity Fund available to retail investors after it was launched to the institutional ...

Fidelity launches global bond fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... also provides exposure to global high-yield bonds and emerging market bonds. It tracks the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Bond Index AUD Hedged. It is jointly managed by Rick Patel, Ario Emami Nejad and Daniel Ushakov, based in London and Ireland, who have ...

Proposed super tax requires perspective: Expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
Members must look beyond the "doom and gloom" of the superannuation tax leaping from 15% to 30% and not be scared off from using SMSFs as an alternative retirement savings vehicle, according to an expert. Presenting at the SMSF Association National ...

New caps can increase super contributions: SMSFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... could become law by June 30 this year. "The only questions that remains is whether the government's proposal not to index the cap and to tax unrealised capital gains will survive the scrutiny of the senate cross bench," he said. "Although there might ...

Super contribution caps to rise on July 1

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
Superannuation contribution caps will go up on July 1, after the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported an increase in average weekly ordinary time earnings (AWOTE). The ABS reported the AWOTE rose 4.5%, seasonally adjusted, in the year to November ...

Teals will push for super tax indexation: Burgess

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... indexation," he said. Providing input as to the amendment, the association has proposed it be linked to the consumer price index (CPI). "Of course, there are lots of different ways that you could index this CPI, but we've chosen that method because ...

VanEck failed to disclose influencer's role in ETF launch: SEC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
... February 2021 launch of the VanEck Social Sentiment ETF (NYSE: BUZZ). The ETF tracks the BUZZ NextGen AI US Sentiment Leaders Index, which comprises the 75 large cap US stocks with "the highest degree of positive investor sentiment bullish perception ...