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Family offices should supplement super

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... on earnings at the company tax rate of 30%. While this is higher than the superannuation rate, it's lower than the highest personal marginal tax rate. "Once in retirement, people can draw a pension from their superannuation fund, and any additional ...

AWS swaps to boutique licensee

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2021
... of an increasingly sophisticated and mature client - many of whom reside interstate and overseas but still demand the highest standards of personal and accessible advisory services," he said. Under the ASVWFS licence, AWS will have access to financial ...

Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... this debt is in mortgages and 60% of debt held by Australian banks is in the form of residential mortgages, one of the highest globally and greatly exposing the banking system to potential disruption. Home ownership rates, meanwhile, have halved for ...

Index fund tops risk-adjusted rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... tails. The research reviews more than 1100 managed investment products. Macquarie Investment Management products had the highest number of mentions (26) across seven products in the Top 10s. Challenger ranked second with 22 and Pendal Group third with ...

ASIC drops Regal action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... and the broader market very seriously, operating within a strict legal and compliance framework designed to maintain the highest level of integrity and standards." Last year, Regal's Atlantic Absolute Return suffered from the COVID-19 market volatility ...

Super leaders recognised

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... superannuation sector represented. This year saw 1190 Australians recognised in the Queen's Birthday honours and includes the highest ever percentage of women recognised at 44%. The financial services industry was well represented on the list, including ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... improvement. The IHS Markit Eurozone PMI composite index increased to a reading of 57.1 in May from 53.8 in April - the highest since February 2018 and the third straight month indicating expansion. The manufacturing sector recorded its highest level ...

CFS, UniSuper win customer satisfaction nods

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
Colonial First State and UniSuper are the superannuation of choice for consumers, taking home the highest satisfaction ratings in Roy Morgan's annual awards. CFS received the Retail Super Fund of the Year nod in the 2020 Customer Satisfaction Awards ...

Putting the local property boom in perspective

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... capital cities. There was a 7.3% average change in prices across 56 countries and territories, with Turkey experiencing the highest rate of annual price growth in the year to the first quarter of 2021 at 32%. This was followed by New Zealand with 22.1% ...

BlackRock rejigs Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... are invested in consumer discretionary stocks including pureplay e-commerce player Redbubble. Industrials are the second-highest sector exposure, accounting for 12.9% of the fund. The strategy has returned 46.5% in the year ending April, to the S&P/ASX ...