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Credit Suisse restructures investment bank

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2022
... "the blueprint for success". The Markets business will see its cross-asset investor product capabilities, equities, FX and rates access closely aligned to the group's wealth management and Swiss banking functions, while remaining committed to institutional ...

Small wins for some pensioners

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... alleviating some of that cost-of-living pressure by being a little bit generous in those areas," he said. "Increasing deeming rates because rates are rising would have put more pressure on pensioners where they are already under cost-of-living pressures." ...

Chalmers delivers on childcare

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... year alone, Charmers said. "That's the equivalent of 37,000 extra full-time workers." From July 2023, childcare subsidy rates will increase up to 90% for eligible families earning less than $530,000. Families will continue to receive existing higher ...

Federal Budget is challenging: Economist

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2022
... families and businesses. "Rising gas prices are pushing electricity prices and pushing inflation - which will keep interest rates higher for longer, which will slow the economy down, which will add to unemployment. Or in other words, gas prices are very ...

RBA downplays exchange rate inflationary impacts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... reflecting disruptions to supply coupled with strong demand. In his presentation, Kent explained how the behaviour of exchange rates, both real and nominal, conflated these inflationary pressures. "For many years over the past decade or so, actual wages ...

Retirees are silent casualties of inflation: Challenger

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
... salary increasing with inflation, retirees face additional risks to maintain their lifestyle, the report said. "Even modest rates of inflation can hamper a retiree's lifestyle; with inflation of only 2% a year, one-quarter of the real value of the ...

Former AUSIEX chief to join Investment Trends

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
... Separately, Investment Trends' latest Adviser Product and Marketing Report, found that rising inflation and interest rates, as well as other geopolitical events, have contributed to a steep drop in financial advisers' stock market expectations ...

Millionaires worry about retirement

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2022
... account for heightened and emerging risks to the equity portion or a low-rate environment, which is bad for bonds. Even as rates go up, it will still take time for them to reach a comfortable level for generating a consistent income for retirees. In ...

Aqualand, Qualitas launch $600m luxury project

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2022
... commitment to sustainability, are imperative in the major Australian gateway cities experiencing historically low vacancy rates and heavily constrained supply of new residential product," Fischer said. Aqualand managing director Jin Lin said the project ...

AMP debuts hybrid retirement solution

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2022
... Lifetime Income account is a flexible pension account that provides a market-linked income stream and an annual bonus with rates guaranteed for life. The annual bonus, which is underwritten by TAL, rises the longer customers live and the premium is paid ...