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Negative gearing exposing Australia's poor: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... better-off recipients. "The proportion of households that end up paying no net tax - but via an administratively costly money-go-round of paying income tax and then getting it all or more sum back via income support payments, has now reached 60%," Rynne ...

Open data carries privacy risk: ABA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
Open data used by banks and fintechs to innovate and cross-sell products must be underpinned by robust regulation that protects the consumers, otherwise they risk major privacy breaches, according to the Australian Bankers' Association. Educating customers ...

Stone and Chalk lends voice to start-ups by women

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... change but when she did, she blew the lights out. Last October, she raised $3.5 million in an over-subscribed seed funding round - a record amount of funds raised at that point in a start-up's journey. "I have so much more confidence in my gut instincts ...

Citi appoints government affairs head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
Citi is welcoming a new head of government affairs. James Bond joins Citi from the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, where he was director external affairs and investment. Prior to that, he was both the president of the Australian Services ...

Korea scopes out Aussie asset management market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
The Korean Financial Investment Association (KOFIA) is reviewing the state of Australia's asset management market and assessing the potential for future business ahead of the Asia Region Funds Passport scheme commencing at the end of 2017. As a partner ...

Super fund private equity demand growing

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
Superannuation funds are shunning traditional asset classes and increasingly turning to private equity opportunities, the latest key market insights from law firm MinterEllison show. In the last 12 months superannuation funds have ramped investment ...

Damned if they do, damned if they don't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
First the good news. Crude oil prices have closed the March quarter of 2017 above the psychological US$50.00 per barrel mark - the level they have risen to since the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that they (and non-OPEC ...

Global SMA rated superior

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
A separately managed account portfolio providing investors with exposure to major tech disruptors was awarded a superior investment grade rating from SQM Research. The Loftus Peak Global Change Model Portfolio was awarded four out of a possible five ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
There's "One Direction (1D)" - the English-Irish pop music boy band -- and there's the Bank of England (BOE). Like the big event of March - the US Federal Reserve lifted the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 0.75% - 1.0% at its 15-16 March FOMC meeting ...

AIA launches digital life insurance advice tool

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... executive Hugh Morrow and former Vanguard Australia head Jeremy Duffield in 2012, SuperEd raised $800,000 in its first funding round in 2015, and is looking to raise an extra three to $6 million on top of a recent $2.5 million to help with its partnership ...