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Australia in effective recession: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... growth. The fact it is not, is further evidence Australia's economy is stagnating. Holden also believes the Federal Budget on April 2 will have further goodies for voters in the run-up to the election and Australian taxpayers are unlikely to face ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... government consumption could not continue to provide such strong contribution going forward without negatively impacting the Budget. Just have a read at what the ABS said about this: "Government final consumption expenditure rose 1.8% in the December ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... the statement, China announced more measures to stem its slowing economy. My compliments to Factset for this synopsis: "Budget deficit target raised to 2.8% from 2.6% last year with CNY2.0T [US$298 billion] in tax cuts announced, including a 3% cut to ...

No one-size-fits-all approach to franking changes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... exercise caution. Magellan, she added, was defensively positioned right now. "We're not fully utilising our entire risk budget," she said. "And even within certain markets, certain defensive shares actually look more expensive." Simon Doyle, Schroder's ...

Super needs a clear objective: Cooper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... said franking credit refunds couldn't continue in their current form because Australia had a "structural problem" with its budget, highlighting Cooper's point. "It's highlighted by the fact that we have an ageing population," Thistlethwaite said. He ...

Industry funds wary of stapling default members

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
... Productivity Commission's recommendations, while in Canberra the Senate pored over the Protecting Your Super Bill from last year's budget. The Senate last evening passed legislation to give the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) the power to take inactive ...

Spousal top ups to beat super balance inequity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
An industry association has used its pre-Budget submission to call for the introduction of a spousal rollover measure to help bridge the gender gap in superannuation balances. The SMSF Association said allowing individuals to rollover a portion of their ...

HNWs to embrace alternatives in 2019: Fund manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
A boutique investment firm plans to allocate much of the $175 million it raised in 2018 to alternatives, anticipating family offices and private wealth advisers will increasingly do the same. Spire Capital raised $175 million in aggregate for three ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... uncertainty that was followed soon after by Rome and Belgium's stoush over the new Italian government's proposed budget, resulting in Italian bond yields surging to four-year highs. Italian 10-year bond yields have recently come down from the ...

Will the PC recommendations fall through the cracks?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... Productivity Commission and Hayne Royal Commission reports in the lead up to, and as part of the earlier than usual Commonwealth Budget on April 2." There's the possibility that not all of the recommendations from either report will be adopted. There ...

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Mercer Super chief executive steps down

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   12:01PM
Mercer Super chief executive Claire Ross is departing after almost 17 years in senior leadership roles at the retail super fund.

AusFood Super looks to revitalise member engagement

MATTHEW WAI  |   11:30AM
The $3.5 billion super fund has partnered with InvestStream to launch RetireSmart+, becoming the first super fund to bring an AI-powered engagement experience to some 66,000 members.

L1 Group posts 'marked recovery' in June quarter

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   12:13PM
L1 Group has reported a marked recovery in investment performance in the June quarter.

European PE firm mandates Apostle with Australian distribution

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |   11:50AM
Apostle Fund Management has been appointed by European investment firm Triton Partners for the distribution of its credit strategies in Australia and New Zealand.

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