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Chief economist update: Aussie Black Friday spend will end Saturday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... sales, but also in areas such as clothing and furniture... While seasonal adjustment removes regular seasonal patterns associated with Black Friday based on prior results, the strong seasonally adjusted rises in a number of sub-groups this month shows ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... tend to have unhappy endings. In a fragile global environment, policy improvements are critical to minimise the risks associated with the current debt wave." Productivity slowdown also underlies the fragile outlook for advanced economies in 2020. "Weaker ...

What you read in 2019: Superannuation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019
... under 400 members, merged with Equipsuper in October. DowASF is the corporate plan of Dow Chemicals Australia and its associated companies. When Dow was split into three companies this year, Dow Australia requested a review of the super fund as fewer ...

Westpac to pay $9.5m for Corps Act breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... clients to alter their existing superannuation and insurance arrangements for Westpac products or those of entities associated with Westpac in order to generate greater fees and commissions. In reaching his decision, Justice Wigney said: "The relationship ...

No joy in the advice world this Christmas

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2019
... mandated modifying remuneration arrangements with little consideration or appreciation of the complexities and costs associated with providing clients professional advisory services", he explained. "The impact on businesses, clients, staff, families ...

Responsible entity declares insolvency

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... action is completely removed from the Australian Corporate Bond Trust and XTBs or any other managed investment scheme associated with Theta. Theta remains the RE of the trust and is also a service provider to the business of XTBs on the ASX. As securities ...

MySuper heat map lauds industry funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... clear" would today "be breathing a sigh of relief", and noted the heat map's analysis of returns only assessed risk associated with a fund's percentage allocation to growth assets. According to Ross, APRA could have done better by including additional ...

APRA releases MySuper heat map

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... administration fees in much of the benchmarking, noting the regulator's acknowledgment that high admin fees are associated with poor performance. It also sided with ASFA in taking exception with the term length of returns assessed, and said 10 year ...

Life insurers lost $3.4b over five years: APRA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... with fixed terms and conditions of over five years and ensuring effective controls are in place to manage the risks associated with longer benefit periods. The regulator said it will collect and release better insights into marker trends and developments ...

Sargon opens door to trustee tech

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019
... entire industry. "The operation of pension and investment funds is inherently complex, and this complexity and its associated cost only continues to grow under an increasing regulatory burden," Kingston said. "For Australian superannuation, members' ...