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Risk clients, practices worth more: Radar Results

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2023
Financial advice practices specialising in risk insurance are gaining higher price multiples on clients and are selling for up to $1.5 million as demand rises and supply drops. Radar Results' latest insights show price multiples on risk insurance ...

It's not 2008, but there's likely more pain ahead: Iggo

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2023
... creating the risk that more regional banks run into problems," he said. "In turn, this will impact on local economies and small- and medium-sized businesses, thus US recession risks are higher." Amid market turmoil, Iggo favours bonds. "Fixed income ...

Super reform "takes away the right to be tax exempt"

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2023
... there are some people who do have far too much in super and who arguably could afford to pay the additional tax. But many small businesspeople and farmers are asset-rich, cash-poor, where their business has been their whole life," she said. "They have ...

Industry fund bags consecutive customer experience award

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2023
... funds, with IOOF, Australian Retirement Trust, Aware Super, and CareSuper following as top performers. Though, IOOF had a small sample size, it noted. Spirit Super achieved an overall score of 68.3%. The sector benchmark was 52.7%, and the lowest performer ...

Do your cyber-attack drills: Funds warned

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2023
... drills work, and people know what to do," she said. "We can't impress enough the importance of having drills and starting small, just in a cyber team and then spreading that out to include tech. "Practice the ripple effect of bringing more people ...

The unique experience of a single woman

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... has only been available to women outside of medical reasons for the past 10 years. But carrying the expense alone is no small feat. "Once you add in medication costs and day surgery costs it probably will be anywhere from $7000 to $11,000 to freeze your ...

New EM fund for Maple-Brown Abbott

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... stronger operating positions, and at attractive valuations," she said. Last July, the fund manager launched an Australian small companies fund managed by Phillip Hudak and Matt Griffin, who joined from AMP Capital.

Super a big national advantage: Chalmers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... from its peak around Christmas," he said. "Interest rate rises are really tightening the screws for a lot of families and small businesses right around the country." He said if you combine that with global uncertainty, it's easy to see why Treasury ...

Lending to small businesses increases: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2023
Despite soaring interest rates, the number of small business owners borrowing from banks has sharply risen in 2022, a new survey reveals. More than a third (36%) of Australian small businesses canvassed by CPA Australia are increasingly relying on external ...

NZ advisers begin new licensing regime

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... deposit taking, insurance and advice Michael Hewes said this figure includes licences issued to sole operators, as well as small firms and large entities employing multiple advisers. "The total number of advisers covered by those full licences will be ...