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US recession possible, but recovery would be strong: Capital Group

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023
... of COVID, we're looking at a situation where, because of the scale of the stimulus, the US private sector looks in pretty fine fettle as far as balance sheets are concerned." Therefore, Lind said, it's highly unlikely the fundamental conditions ...

Advisers pivot to protect retirees from inflation

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... Advice Centre business owner David Reed said this is the approach the group has taken with its retiree clients "who are pretty disciplined." After speaking with advisers around Australia, the way most mitigate the impact of inflation on retirement incomes ...

How this budget was built

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... the main are Age Pension payments and aged care expenditures, are meanwhile growing strongly but only by 7% each, which pretty much matches the inflation rate. Against this, while the government is making a big deal about its policy decision to increase ...

Venture capital rout rattles advice technology sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2023
... through? Does the backing of this company line up with the promises they're making? We see a lot of pitch decks where some pretty grand and ambitious promises or plans are put forward yet haven't raised the amount of capital that would even remotely ...

High returns flow from water rights

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023
... interesting year ahead for water investors. "We're shifting from three back-to-back La Niña events, which historically is pretty rare, and the bureau is now anticipating a shift to El Niño sometime this year and potentially also a positive Indian Ocean ...

Modern slavery on the rise a decade on from Rana Plaza

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... impact Meg Brodie. "The introduction of that legislation and a reporting initiative started the conversation in what is a pretty nascent/emerging market for embracing human rights risk, full stop." During the same decade, the United Nations promulgated ...

Love affair with managed accounts continues

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023
... leading the space in model portfolios and managed accounts. "They're sitting at $2 trillion," she said. "So that's a pretty significant number and it suggests that Australia's got a long way to go." According to Schafer, 47% of advisers said ...

Advice industry must change as population ages: Expert

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... these variations in accumulation and decumulation plus when they want to take on risk," he said. "So, we move away from a pretty standard financial advice model to something much more complicated, that of course runs into a major problem because regulators ...

Do your cyber-attack drills: Funds warned

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... scenarios as damning as possible, because if you look around at what's happened to some other companies, they've been pretty detrimental." Financial Standard is the official media partner of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees' ...

Future-proofing the super system: Rees

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... be compulsory, Rees said the common argument is that people would rather put that money into a home. "But the stats are pretty clear, and if you use APRA's data, the long term returns for superannuation are in the order of 7-8% and the long term ...