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Advice take up falls amid decade-low retirement confidence

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024
While demand for financial advice is apparently the highest it's ever been, the number of people actually seeking it has dropped. That's according to new research from Brighter Super and Investment Trends that shows retirement confidence among Australians ...

Fair Work ruling, ASIC put offshoring arrangements on notice

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... by telephone and email. She described the work as involving investigating credit claims on clients' behalf," FWA documents show. Pascua was also allocated a pbx phone unit that made it look like she had an Australian phone number; an email address with ...

UK to follow Australia's lead in creating megafunds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
In what's considered the most significant reforms to the UK retirement sector in decades, the defined contribution schemes of 86 administering authorities will be consolidated and their assets pooled to create megafunds. The UK government plans to introduce ...

HNWIs demand alternatives, platforms lack access

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
As high-net-worth (HNW) investors increasingly demand alternative assets, platforms are failing to facilitate access to these opportunities, according to Praemium. Nearly one third of HNW investors want to diversify into alternatives but their platforms ...

Bragg calls for Cbus to front Senate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
Senator Andrew Bragg has called on Cbus chief executive Kristian Fok to face a Senate inquiry over the recent legal proceedings launched by ASIC against the fund and the CFMEU scandal. "The reason that we're having a Senate inquiry in Canberra into ...

Australian economy 'fundamentally sound': CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) chief executive Matt Comyn painted a positive picture for the Australian economy, despite ongoing cost-of-living pressures. Comyn said high interest rates are doing the job of bringing inflation under control, but the pace of ...

Perpetual reveals decade of philanthropy insights

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024
Perpetual, for the first time, has laid bare a decade's worth of data, unveiling insights into the philanthropic and charity sectors. In a special edition of its annual philanthropy insights report, the wealth manager said despite incremental changes ...

Outdated super rule costs teens $10k at retirement

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024
New modelling from the Super Members Council (SMC) finds most teenagers will miss out on an additional $10,000 at retirement simply because they're not entitled to superannuation contributions. The lobby group's Guaranteeing a Super Start to Work report ...

Australian ETFs reach $233bn in FUM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024
The Australian ETF industry continues to see strong inflows, according to the VanEck ETF Industry Pulse October 2024, reaching a record $233 billion in funds under management. This is up 2.7% from September 2024 and up 54.5% from October 2023. Betashares ...

GQG's FUM pulls back, breaks six-month streak

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024
... GQG, he said, is much more focused on "preparation over prognostication." "... our view is that earnings are like gravity. Show us where the earnings are going, and ultimately, we believe the price will map to that. To the extent that possible policy ...