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Poor equities performance sees MySuper suffer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
The average returns for MySuper products dropped to 1.9% in the 12 months to November 2018. This was a fall of a further 1.1 percentage points from the 12-month average return seen at the end of October, analysis from Rainmaker shows. The low returns ...

PC calls for group insurance review

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission is calling for an independent public inquiry into group insurance and floated the possibility of tougher regulation that includes sharper ASIC oversight, among other recommendations. Recommendation 18 in the Productivity ...

The problem the Productivity Commission is trying to fix

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
Australia's superannuation sector in trying to digest the Productivity Commission's 700-page report with its 31 recommendations need to keep in mind the massive structural problems it is trying to fix. The fundamental problem that has perplexed ...

Productivity Commission shakes up default superannuation

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
The Productivity Commission reinforced several recommendations flagged in mid-2018 in a bid to modernise the $2.7 trillion industry, which included shaking up the default sector. The Commission handed down 31 recommendations in its final report in assessing ...

Sydney residential property slumps

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
Sydney residential property was hit hard in 2018, as house prices slid nationally to end the year with the biggest decline quarter on quarter since 2008, according to CoreLogic. Sydney dwellings values fell 8.9% over the year and total returns were ...

Financial Standard unwrapped: Our top stories in 2018

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
These are the 2018 Financial Standard stories to have in your back pocket for summer discussions around the barbeque. Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs In March the ALP proposed to eliminate cash refunds from excess dividend imputation ...

MYEFO: Regulatory funding increases, Budget surplus doubles

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
The 2019 Federal Budget is projected to deliver a $4.1 billion surplus, up from the $2.2 billion estimate in this year's Budget. Financial services regulators have also received increased funding in the government's Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal ...

FIIG turns to institutional market

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
FIIG Securities has made a series of appointments over 2018 to assist its growth in the institutional fixed income market. FIIG, which has $8 billion in securities under advice, officially announced the appointments of three directors and an associate ...

$300k makes advice worthwhile: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
Roy Morgan research suggests having a minimum of $300,000 triggers the need for financial advice. The survey of more than 50,000 consumers in the year to October reinforces that financial advisers tend to target clients at the top end of the income ...

Freedom ditches life insurance sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
Freedom Insurance Group announced it will stop selling life insurance products and alerted shareholders of the likelihood it will face a liquidity crisis next year. The board of the embattled insurer has decided to search for alternative business models ...