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New tax-effective Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... payers can lose 40% of the returns on their Aussie shares portfolio to taxes has launched a new fund aiming to solve the problem. Redpoint Investment Management is starting a quantitative equities fund with Generation Life that aims to return 1-2% higher ...

Banks sluggish on Indigenous financial inclusion

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
Indigenous Australians are being let down by financial institutions' failure to provide access to basic banking services and recognise different cultural attitudes towards money, a new report from the First Nations Foundation reveals. Of the 620 ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... and bundling services like Spotify and Netflix have eliminated the marginal cost of consuming another song or show." The problem with low/easing inflation is that businesses and consumers defer spending - expecting cheaper prices in the future. Weakening ...

Natixis backs gender diversity

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... of financial services as a career." Watson added the program would be successful when gender imbalance was no longer a problem. "Success is when organisations like F3 are no longer needed," Watson said. "I hope and expect that our partnership with F3 ...

Super stability not guaranteed: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
Research house Rice Warner has moved to temper expectations the Coalition's victory in the Federal election will ensure stability in the superannuation system. According to the firm, despite the Coalition's pledges to leave the system unchanged in the ...

Australians demand unpaid super laws: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... political parties are not doing enough to tackle unpaid superannuation and that legislation is the only solution to an ongoing problem. An overwhelming majority of participants (89%) want a new law that forces employers to pay super at the same time ...

ASIC pushes regtech adoption

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
ASIC has launched three regtech events in conjunction with industry and other stakeholders to promote regtech adoption among Australian financial services organisations. These events are an opportunity for regtech startups and financial services organisations' ...

Super, life risk face election test

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... -will mean yet more uncertainty for investors. "Whereas the Coalition isn't really doing anything," he says. However the problem isn't isolated to one side of the political divide. Griffiths says he's seen more SMSFs close in the past 18 months than ...

Beware disruptors: Antipodes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
... perfection because they're exciting and interesting and they've had some innovative products. Uber was very innovative. "The problem is that because of the cloud other companies can do the exact same thing. And, ultimately, customers don't care which ...

Chief economist update: A good problem to have?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2019
If not for the "bubble" - yes, bubble - that's blowing into the equity market, the US Federal Reserve's problem of continued strong growth and below-target inflation is a good problem to have. This is underscored by the latest stat updates that ...