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Liberal MPs slammed for 'dangerous' super policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... super contributions, and they are overwhelmingly women, and are at risk of retiring with no savings," Kowalczyk said. "The lowest paid people in the country continue to be shortchanged with the Low Income Super Tax Offset (LISTO), paying a tax penalty ...

'Challenging period' for active managers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
... managed funds," it said. "Overall, we report majority outperformance in nine out of 12 fixed income categories, including the lowest underperformance rate reported in this scorecard-just 13% of US-domiciled Investment Grade Short and Intermediate Bond ...

Aussie economy grows 0.2% in June quarter

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2024
... over the 2023-24 financial year." "Excluding the COVID-19 pandemic period, annual financial year economic growth was the lowest since 1991-92 - the year that included the gradual recovery from the 1991 recession." GDP per capita was down for the sixth ...

All MySuper products pass super performance test

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2024
... some customers investing through wrap platforms." "Despite administration fees for the AMP wrap platform being among the lowest in the market, we are disappointed that a small subset of investment options on the platform did not pass," she said. AMP ...

Short-termism damaging Australian economy: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... the-housing-price-to-household-income ratio has doubled since the 1990s and is currently around 5.5, and tenure security for renters is equal-lowest among 31 developed countries. "Many Australians don't feel they have shared in the economic prosperity ...

What does the RBNZ rate cut mean to Australia?

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
... for the US Federal Reserve. The US presented a modest rise of 20 basis points (3.2%) in its inflation index in July, the lowest level since April 2021. deVere group chief executive Nigel Green suggested the Fed was already behind the curve globally on ...

Wages grow 0.7% in June quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... reflective of market conditions though: private wages growth rate has cooled for four consecutive quarters and is now at the lowest pace since December 2021. This is unsurprising given less tight labour market conditions, which points to further downside ...

Insignia Financial looks to slash redundancy entitlements

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... entitlements from 94 weeks to 36 weeks after the first 12 months of the new EA being in place. This would make it one of the lowest redundancy arrangements in financial services, the FSU said. "These arrangements will disproportionately impact older ...

Brighter Super posts 9.07% returns for its default option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... exceeded the 6.9% pa return over the past seven years and continues to be one of the top three industry funds nationally for lowest MySuper fees, Brighter Super said. The super fund's pension options also performed strongly, with the Growth option returning ...

UK announces new Pension Schemes Bill

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024
... modelling showed that a defined contribution pot of £10,000 ($19,340) with no further contributions and invested into the lowest performing scheme would only grow to £10,400 ($20,120) in 10 years. However, the same amount with no further contributions ...