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Merging super funds guaranteed tax relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... both the House of Representatives and the Senate, ensuring the tax relief granted to merging super funds is now permanent, rather than a temporary measure. Previously, fund members may have faced a Capital Gains Tax liability when their fund merged. ...

Few funds immune to ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... The average request for CFS, as with most funds, was well below the $10,000 limit and Power thinks that's a good sign. "Rather than taking out the full $10,000, it turns out Australians are being very careful and taking out what they really need to," ...

Road to recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... survive this crisis, but to come out of it in much better shape, to thrive through the next decade." "Proactively respond rather than react." Belinda Allen, senior economist at Commonwealth Bank, said housing and business investment in likely to remain ...

Processes are the problem, not people: Count Financial

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... the business." The integration of technology will allow the firm's advisers to find more time to focus on their clients, rather than administrative tasks. "Through the use of technology, we will enable our advisers to find more time each week for working ...

Industry funds revise ERS modelling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... was asked by Liberal Senator and Committee chair James Paterson what action it had taken on ISA's decision to use nominal rather than real figures in projecting the impact of the policy on member's retirement balances, following the testimony of Treasury ...

South Australian wealth firms merge

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... direct equities and unlisted investment opportunities. Both teams have a collegiate style based on an individually tailored, rather than volume, approach to wealth management. There's a shared practice of openness and transparency in actively safeguarding ...

Fundamentals return to the forefront in EM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... the markets with more robust and attractive interest-rate curves tend to be on the more developed side of the EMD space, rather than being among the higher-yielding, lower-quality names." "On currencies, we've reduced our conviction from an overweight ...

Darwinian time for super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... current period facing Australia's superannuation sector as "Darwinian". "I think we will look back at this period as a rather Darwinian one for Australian superannuation in many respects," Watson told the panel. While Watson is unsure of how many super ...

ASIC issues stark warning to retail investors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... retail investor was not proficient at predicting short-term market movements over the focus period," the regulator said. Rather, ASIC's work found that for more than two thirds of the days on which retail investors were net buyers, their share prices ...

ESG-themed funds fall short of expectations

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... Hyperion Asset Management has a detailed ESG Policy and Framework, its low-carbon risk score was an outcome of their process rather than an intended objective." The Pendal Ethical Australian Share fund did not meet Morningstar's low carbon designation ...