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APRA releases draft climate change guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... understand potential impacts on business model, monitoring risks through regulator updated metrics, considering scenario analysis to inform understanding of long-term risks and opportunities, evidencing plans to manage risks through mitigation plans ...

Adviser numbers at five-year low

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... reverted to the pre-financial services Royal Commission days, ending at 20,667 in the first quarter of 2021. Rainmaker analysis of ASIC's Financial Adviser Register found that the total number of financial advisers have tapered off to levels experienced ...

Commissions likely to stay: Hume

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... industry - including risk advisers - who essentially are distribution arms for life insurers. According to Rainmaker analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register, 5142 advisers ceased in the 12 months to April 14. Anderson is urging the government ...

Super top ups increase: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... (ASFA) research, which shows the median super balances of men aged 60-64 is $154,453 and $122,848 for women. A Finder analysis of ASFA's data reveals that on average men can only live off their super for 3.5 years, while women's funds would only last ...

Government merges advice reviews

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... will mean that once ASIC finishes its data-collection phase, this information will be provided to Treasury for further analysis in the context of the Quality of Advice Review," Hume said. Treasury will keep the issue of underinsurance and access to affordable ...

Value managers fight back: Mercer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
Value fund managers made a highly anticipated comeback in the first quarter of 2021, Mercer's latest analysis of Australian equities performance shows. In the year to March 2021, the Australian Shares Investment Manager Performance Survey revealed ...

Wholesale funds recover losses

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... corrections they subsequently recovered and have continued to climb higher into the first quarter of 2021," Plan For Life analysis said. "However, despite the start of vaccination programs, unprecedented government stimulus and money printing, uncertainty ...

Sunsuper, QSuper members ask for better climate disclosures

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
... members. The $120 billion QSuper has committed to "net zero" emissions by 2050. Sunsuper has conducted climate scenario analysis since 2015, and last year approved a Climate Action Plan for its investment portfolio. One hundred and forty-one QSuper members ...

Tax concessions failing women: Research

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
... per dollar for negative gearing benefits. "Even accounting for the proportion of tax paid by men compared to women, our analysis shows that men receive an oversized benefit from these tax concessions," Littleton said. "Just from these four tax concessions ...

Unlisted assets deliver modest returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... read. Autocorrelation, or serial correlation, is the degree to which future returns are predicted by past returns. The analysis covered five years of monthly returns data to the end of January 2021 for 46 MySuper products. Of the sample, six had no exposure ...