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SMSF assets climb to $892bn

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2022
New quarterly ATO statistics estimate that the total assets of SMSFs are $892 billion, up 11% year on year. More broadly, the total assets of SMSFs have grown by $2.4 billion over a five-year period to the March 2022 quarter. Despite significant asset ...

Carbon transition and MBFID: Is it possible to meet both?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
About 70% of delegates to the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees' ASI Conference would still acquire new fossil-fuel based assets for the purpose of transitioning them - but is it in members' best financial interests? Polled during a panel ...

Australian firms spend 3.6bn on financial crimes

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
A new study has shown that Australian financial service companies are expected to spend more than $3.6 billion on financial crime compliance in 2022. Yesterday LexisNexis Risk Solutions released the first Australian edition of its true cost of compliance ...

Crypto companies halt withdrawals

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2022
International cryptocurrency platforms Celsius and Binance temporarily suspended customer withdrawals. Yesterday, the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, suspended withdrawals on the Bitcoin network. In a statement, Binance said: "This is ...

AustralianSuper changes admin fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2022
AustralianSuper is aiming to reduce costs to members by $300 million this year, including lowering administration fees for some members. According to the fund, members with less than $50,000 in their accounts will pay about 60% less than they currently ...

OECD projects sharp growth deceleration

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2022
Russia's invasion of Ukraine immediately slowed the recovery from the Covid pandemic and set the global economy on a course of lower growth, the OECD said. The intergovernmental organisation's latest economic outlook said global growth would ...

ASIC releases estimate cost recovery levies for 2021/22

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
ASIC has drafted its indicative levies for the 2021/22 financial year. In its latest cost recovery implementation statement, ASIC proposed a minimum levy of $1500 plus $1142 per adviser for licensees that provide personal advice to retail clients on ...

ASFA, Deloitte recommend group insurance changes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2022
Collaborating to examine the benefits of insurance offered via superannuation, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) and Deloitte have made recommendations as to how it could be enhanced. A joint report titled ' The Future of Insurance ...

Lifespan partners with OpenInvest to launch advice solution

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2022
Lifespan Financial Planning has launched a digital investing solution to help bridge the advice gap. The new digital investing solution will support the mass market of Australians priced out of receiving holistic advice from a financial adviser. Lifespan ...

GDP rises but headwinds abound

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022
... international travel picking up. As such, Barclays 2022 full-year forecast was lower than the Reserve Bank of Australia's 4.25% estimate. The bank explained: "We expect private consumption to be softer in Q2-Q3 as inflation remains elevated." "Incoming ...