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BlackRock rejigs Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... including tobacco producers, controversial weapons, thermal coal (greater than 5% revenue from production and power generation), oil sands (greater than 5% revenue from production), nuclear weapons, and oil and gas. The managers typically excluded these ...

Platinum launches investment bond

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... Platinum's competitor Magellan Asset Management also recently signed up for inclusion in the investment bond structure, via Generation Life's tax optimiser series.

Licensee awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... administrative work as a result of this new partnership. The solution is speeding up file notes and Statement of Advice generation and eliminates the need for a paper-based fact finder, the dealer group's managing director Sam El Shammaa said. In ...

Court says minister has 'duty of care' in coal investment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... Environment Minister has a duty of care not to cause them harm from climate change. The case was brought by Equity Generation Lawyers principal David Barnden. He is the same lawyer who defended Mark McVeigh in his case against his super fund Rest. That ...

Poor financial literacy failing young workers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... reveals that low financial literacy is correlated to certain demographics, namely young people who are migrants or first-generation Australians; had a long-term health condition or a disability; had a parent who was unemployed for 12 months or more while ...

What Gen Z think about investing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
New research from Vanguard has revealed what the TikTok generation think about investing, and it turns out they are highly motivated. Generation Z, defined as those born between 1997 and 2009, were found by the survey of more than 1000 Australians to ...

Generational wealth gap continues to widen

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... address intergenerational inequality is through policy. "There's an element of bad luck for younger generations, every generation has their struggles," she said. "This bad luck of millennials and generation Z is being compounded by a series of policy ...

Aussies regret ERS withdrawals: AIST poll

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... end up retiring with the same meagre amount of super as their grandmothers did. We simply must not condemn another generation of women to poverty in retirement." In all, nearly 3.5 million Australians withdrew about $36.4 billion from their superannuation ...

COVID support temporarily improves inequality

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
The equity gap between young and old Australians narrowed after a seven-year widening streak but the improved fortunes of the young may be short-lived, says the Actuaries Institute. Calling it "a year like no other", Actuaries Institute's Intergenerational ...

Kapstream co-founder announces career break

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... contribution to Janus Henderson, his unwavering commitment to our clients, and his involvement in developing the next generation of investors. Our dedicated Absolute Return Income team consists of thirteen people, of which Nick is one, split across the ...