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What the 2018 Budget means for you

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
More changes to Australia's $2.6 trillion superannuation system, additional funding to the nation's financial services regulators, personal tax cuts and additional pensioner benefits are the major talking points of Budget 2018. The 2018 Budget is arguably ...

Budget 2018: Social media reaction

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
No sooner had Treasurer Scott Morrison uttered his first words of the 2018 Budget when social media commentators began having their say. Here's how Twitter reacted. "A stronger economy. More jobs. Guaranteeing essential services. The Government living ...

Baby boomers receive $259 million, pension work bonus lifted

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... million Aussies are currently on the Age Pension. Financial Planning Association's head of policy and government relations Ben Marshan said lifting the pension work bonus has a positive impact on retirees. "Allowing age pension age Australian's the ability ...

Royal Commission sees increased ASIC, APRA funding

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... should not be allowed to borrow directly. Earlier today, Financial Planning Association head of policy and government relations Ben Marshan said the FPA has "supportive of the extra funding ASIC received last year. ASIC is moving to a self-funding model ...

What the associations want from Budget 2018

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... model from this year we are supportive of it, especially for financial planning," FPA head of policy and government relations Ben Marshan said. Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) Last year the body which now represents $1.2 trillion ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... assumptions - GDP growth, employment, inflation, wages - embedded in Budget Papers 2018-19 before casting the first stone. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund manager, economist, asset ...

Regtech scores deal with US bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
Sydney and Ireland based regtech Kyckr has signed a five-year data licensee agreement with a US bank, under which the bank will have access to 200 regulated primary sources of corporate intelligence across 120 territories. The un-named bank will be ...

Federal government responds to white collar crime Senate inquiry

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
The Federal Government has agreed to strengthen some of ASIC's powers but has deferred acting on recommendations to tighten self-reporting and industry codes as it waits for the dust to settle on Royal Commission findings. In its response to the Senate ...

InvestSMART to launch active ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
InvestSMART will launch an initial public offering for an actively-managed equity income ETF on May 14. The InvestSMART Australian Equity Income Fund (managed fund), trading under the ticker code INIF, will mirror InvestSMART's Australian Equity Income ...

Chief economist update: Crying for Argentina

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
The Argentinian central bank lifted interest rates, a move intended to stem the sharp and rapid depreciation of the Argentine peso and by extension put downward pressure on inflation. Whoa! Fret not whether the Fed is going to raise interest rates by ...