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Diverse investment teams fare better: WTW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2023
Investment teams in the top quartile of gender diversity outperform the bottom quartile by 45bps per annum in terms of net excess returns, a new report from WTW shows. Analysing more than 1500 investment strategies, WTW found equity and credit strategies ...

In need of repair: Gender stereotypes and advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
If a male and female customer, each experiencing the same car troubles, take their vehicles for repairs to the same mechanic, who is more likely to get ripped off? That a woman will end up paying more is a tired cliché that continues to play out in ...

Unindexed cap forecast to impact 500k people

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2023
If the government's $3 million superannuation cap is not indexed, it will adversely impact around 500,000 individuals who are currently saving for retirement or have already retired. Financial Services Council (FSC) analysis of ATO data found a ...

Super on PPL a drop in the ocean

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2023
The cost to pay superannuation contributions on Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave (PPL) has been estimated to be about $200 million per year. The government's objective of superannuation and the accompanying discussion paper that fails to mention ...

Super tax break crackdown to hit $410bn in savings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2023
Rainmaker Information estimates the $3 million superannuation cap would impact $410 billion of savings for around 100,000 Australians. Although only a small proportion of Australians hold $3 million or more in superannuation, they own a disproportionately ...

Optimum Pensions urges super trustees to insure mortality risk

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
Optimum Pensions has urged super trustees to insure life expectancy and mitigate mortality risk to meet Retirement Income Covenant objectives. Optimum Pensions' ' The difference between insured and uninsured retirement products ' whitepaper said trustees ...

SMSF sector hit the reset button: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
The introduction of the Transfer Balance Cap (TBC) in 2017 saw contributions into SMSFs plummet by 60%. While it didn't take them long to bounce back, how they're used has changed. According to insights from Rainmaker Information, the self-managed super ...

Stafford Capital Partners launches sustainable timber impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2023
Stafford Capital Partners has reached initial close of a carbon offset and sustainable timberland impact strategy that will see investment in Australian and New Zealand assets form part of the portfolio. The Stafford Carbon Offset Opportunity Fund has ...

Unlicensed investor pleads guilty to fraud charges

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2023
Former Orb Global Investments chief executive Akhilesh Kamkolkar has pleaded guilty to charges relating to $1 million of investor money he spent for himself. A further two offences of carrying on a financial services business without a licence will ...

Tattarang buys Australia's first Waldorf Astoria

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2023
Fiveight, the property arm of the Forrests' investment vehicle Tattarang, has acquired the planned high-end Waldorf Astoria hotel at Sydney's Circular Quay precinct. Purchased from Lendlease and its joint venture partner Mitsubishi Estate Asia, the ...