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FASEA offers exam feedback

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... rate yet. Some 1079 advisers sat the exam, compared to an average of 1323 across all exams only 73% of those that sat the January exam passed. The overall pass rate across all sittings of the exam is 89%. The latest results show the lowest pass rate ...

NAB MySuper class action heads to Federal Court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... Court, following a decision late last year. The class action brought by Maurice Blackburn against MLC Nominees and NULIS in January 2020 on behalf of 330,000 MasterKey members accuses the super trustees of breaching their duties by delaying the transition ...

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... world has risen to 23.7 million as of April 11 - a record high that eclipses the 23.0 million registered at the end of January this year (before not a few countries reimposed restrictions). Similarly, after dropping below 400k in February (from 845K ...

Chief economist update: Fourth wave threatens Olympics, growth outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
... Worldometer.info data shows that after dropping to around 1000 per day in early March from peak of more than 6000 daily infections in January, the seven-day average of daily new cases have increased to around 2500 in early April. Will Japan declare a ...

Chief economist update: RBA promises support over the next three years

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... April 2021' report (released overnight) upgraded Australia's GDP growth to 4.5% this year from 3.5% forecast in January 2021 and 3.0% predicted in October 2020. This is in line with the OECD's 'Economic Outlook' March 2020 quarter ...

MySuper fees could halve in 10 years

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... superannuation products (choice as well as MySuper) available in Australia lowered their fees in the six months ending January 2021. A much smaller number (47) increased their fees. Rainmaker executive director of research Alex Dunnin said the firm's ...

ASIC sues CBA over monthly fees

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... overcharging from June 2010 to May 2019 and first identified problems with its systems which caused the overcharging in January 2011. It was only in December 2018 that CBA notified ASIC and lodged its first breach reports in May 2019. "ASIC commenced ...

Chief economist update: Chinese manufacturing ramps up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... year. The OECD's March 2021 'Interim Economic Outlook' report pencilled in a 7.8% expansion this year. In January this year, the World Bank (WB) forecast China's GDP to grow by 7.9% in 2021 predicated on "the release of pent-up demand ...

Unlisted assets deliver modest returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... which future returns are predicted by past returns. The analysis covered five years of monthly returns data to the end of January 2021 for 46 MySuper products. Of the sample, six had no exposure to unlisted assets, while nearly half had unlisted exposure ...

Mason Stevens bolsters Melbourne team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... Charlie Green, who manages client relationships and new business opportunities, in the Melbourne office. It was only in January that Mason Stevens co-chief investment officer and managing director Tom Bignill left his role after 11 years. Bignill's ...