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Inflation slows, but for how long?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... effect next week. "We don't consider the Federal Budget to offer any policies that are conducive to the RBA changing its current rate cut timeline, and our position is unchanged on the likely cadence of no further rate cuts until later in the year and ...

AZ NGA practices merge on road to 'super firm'

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ NGA). In 2024, EWM merged with Blue Harbour Financial Partners and Logiro, making the current merger the third transaction in the past 12 months - it will continue to seek growth and expansion in capacity and capability ...

Investors warned to sell hybrids before phase out

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
As APRA phases out hybrids, and with retail investors holding an estimated 20-30% of the $42 billion sector, Schroders fund manager Helen Mason said now is a good time for investors to consider a new income solution. Mason said the phase out of retail ...

Payday super on track, but so is the $3m super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... billion since the MYEFO from taxes on the sector. "The upgrade to superannuation fund taxes reflects higher-than-expected current year collections, higher contributions due to the strength in employment and an increase in tax from earnings on investments," ...

Chalmers' warning on tariffs and trade wars

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... impacted nor immune from these pressures, but we are among the best placed to navigate them." The Budget estimates the current upheaval in the international economic, geopolitical and trade landscape will have relatively modest direct impacts on Australia ...

Non-compete, restraint clauses to be outlawed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... where they "have no justification and drag down wages." The ban will apply to all workers who earn less than $175,000, the current high-income threshold under the Fair Work Act. It's estimated about three million workers are impacted by such clauses ...

DBFO reforms package 'pretty disappointing': FAAA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... provisions could effectively staple a member to their super fund for life, with no trigger for them to consider whether their current fund is still the right one for them in retirement, and no support for their retirement needs beyond an allocated pension ...

Regal slashes holdings in Opthea over insolvency concerns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
Regal Asian Investments (ASX:RG8) has significantly devalued its holdings in biopharmaceutical company Opthea after the latter flagged insolvency concerns amid the failure of a major clinical trial. RG8 has been forced to drop Opthea's value to ...

What to expect in the 2025 Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... very responsibly from here." An adviser poll conducted by Viridian Advisory revealed that the cost-of-living crisis, the current housing shortage, and aged care policies are dominating client concerns in the lead up to the Budget. While 82% of the advisers ...

Splintered globalisation a boon for AI, metals, EVs: PGIM

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
As geopolitical tensions and trade wars derail globalisation, artificial intelligence (AI), metals and minerals, and electric vehicles (EV) are some of the sectors poised to be winners for investors, new research from PGIM shows. This new era of globalisation ...