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More financially secure women seek advice: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
Financially secure women in the second half of their lives prioritise living comfortably in retirement and travelling as their key goals and seek financial advice to maintain a level of prosperity, a new survey from Perpetual Private found. Canvassing ...

Fed cut will not move the dial for RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
The US Federal Reserve delivered its first interest rate cut in four years, reducing the official cash rate by 50 basis points, but experts say the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is still not in a position to do the same. Yesterday's official unemployment ...

Super for housing to exacerbate affordability crisis: Eslake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... National Parties during the 2022 election, and subsequently, will result in residential property prices rising at a faster rate than they would otherwise, especially if growth in the supply of housing falls short of the growth in the underlying demand ...

Federal Reserve kicks off easing cycle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... overnight, its first reduction in four years. The US central bank decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by half a percentage point to 4.75-5%, surprising many who believed it would opt for a cut of just 0.25%. "The committee has ...

Super to be paid on parental leave from July 2025

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... parental leave will accumulate SG contributions on the income paid by the government from 1 July 2025, at which time the SG rate will have increased to 12%. Those SG contributions will have a nominal interest rate amount applied to them and will then ...

Alternatives market to hit US$30tn by 2030: Preqin

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... growth signifies an annualised increase of 9.7% for the entire sector in the forecast period (2023-end - 2029). The growth rate represents a 0.8% drop from the previous period. Preqin said this is due to softer expectations for the private equity and ...

Megatrends impacting portfolio construction: Mercer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... several structural trends playing out across asset classes as well as inflationary pressures and moving into an interest rate easing cycle. "These are not things that are going to occur over the next six months, it's more two-, three- or five-year cycles," ...

Advisers reveal hurdles preventing SMA adoption

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... our advisers, so we work closely with them to address these concerns," Gallagher said. "Traditional research houses that rate funds haven't caught up yet as much as we would have liked them to, so it is important for advisers have robust due diligence ...

Payday Super penalties ramped up ahead of legislation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... payment. It will now comprise: The SG shortfall Daily interest on the SG shortfall calculated at the general interest charge rate on a compounding basis (currently 11.36%) An additional levy to reflect the cost of enforcement, up to 60% of the SG shortfall ...

Remara launches real estate strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... they know and want, which is property, without the substantial and concentrated capital costs and the exposure to interest rate uncertainty, planning, and they will likely meet the projected development return of 20%, given the housing shortages across ...