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Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... Commonwealth Officers' Association, established in 1923, had 50,000 members at its peak. But with dwindling membership and not enough revenues, SCOA's board has decided to call time on the body. In its pre-Budget submission the group confirmed ...

Chief economist update: Safe as burning houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... repayments of 30-40% when borrowers are forced to start paying back the principal." Four years after 2018 takes us to 2022, time enough to get our "houses" in order. However, tighter lending restrictions implemented by the Australian Prudential Regulation ...

Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... are held as listed securities which Pearce thinks are better than unlisted property - both in valuations and maintaining enough liquidity to allow members to move in and out. "Property is interesting because you've got a massive discrepancy in the ...

Former Paradice managers launch LIT

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... It has been closed to new investments since November 2015 but a LIT is not on cards, Mitchell said. "We don't have enough investors in that strategy, and it won't meet the ASX listing rules," he said. Andrew Mitchell was profiled in FS Private ...

Westpac executive remuneration voted down

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... strong message to the board," he said. Many voting against the remuneration report questioned whether the board went far enough, particularly in reducing short-term variable rewards paid to the chief executive and other executives, Maxsted added. "In ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... quarter from 0.2% in the previous one) and... after months of sanguine Brexit news (so much so, that the BOE was confident enough to lift interest rates in August), a Brexit agreement is now looking further away as the final divorce in three months' ...

New mortality study adds to retirement conversation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... from all Australian life insurers with annuities and actuaries to calculate the rates. However, it was not able to find enough Aussie data. Therefore, it used UK data from its actuaries body to calculate Australian rates. Actuaries Institute chief executive ...

New SG laws hit Senate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... educational course and provide evidence once completed. Industry Super Australia said it welcomed the Bill but it isn't strong enough to stop workers being routinely short-changed their super entitlements. ISA's research shows this figure stands at $5.9 ...

Planning firm among healthiest Australian workplaces

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... stress existing as long-term problems. Mu said the increased productivity to come with addressing these problems was reason enough for Australia's organisations to take action. "In the long-term, organisations that take positive steps to identify and ...

Wealth an unnecessary failure: Thorburn

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... traditional banking operations. "It was more a standalone type business unit," he said. "And I think we didn't invest in it enough to be honest. That was partly four our reason we had another couple of strategic issues we were dealing with that we decided ...