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Minimum wage rises by 3%

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... closed to some degree with an increase in minimum wages. "We are satisfied that the level of increase we have decided upon will not lead to any adverse inflationary outcome and nor will it have any measurable negative impact on employment," the Commission ...

Impact investing an advice opportunity: Expert

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
An impact investing expert believes the principle offers financial advisers with an opportunity to engage people who might deem investing to be too complex for them. Speaking in Sydney yesterday, WHEB Asset Management managing partner George Latham ...

Australians retire too wealthy: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... maintain a standard of living in retirement, but currently the system is working towards achieving even more than that. "We are not trying to get them to have a standard of living in retirement substantially higher than they had during their working ...

Industry wide pay cut for boards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... for poor conduct and, in some cases, criminal proceedings where the behaviour has been outright illegal. "The customer was not put at the centre of the experience, and their organisations are paying the bill. That bill is of course then flowing down ...

Ethical funds not ambitious enough: Future Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... companies while claiming to impact the corporate behaviour of those companies positively by being active investors. "It's not true that through corporate engagement you can turn a fossil fuel company into an environmentally friendly company. Fossil ...

Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... annual 10% lending growth cap) will go a long way towards slowing/stopping/reversing the fall and fall in property prices. Not to mention the Labor Party's defeat at the May elections and its proposal to limit negative gearing and halve the capital ...

The case for tax deductible advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... present, under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, fees for drawing up financial plans - such as initial advice fees - are not deductible for income tax purposes as the fee is incidental and relevant to outlaying the price of acquiring the investment/s. ...

Prime Super drops admin fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... when balances reach more than $100,000. Part of the PYSP also requires funds to ban all exit fees. Baird said Prime Super has not charged exit fees since 1 July 2013. The super fund has taken the opposite approach of AustralianSuper and REI Super, which ...

Macquarie Securities cops ASIC penalty

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... remedial measures after identifying the causes following a comprehensive review. The compliance with the infringement notice is not an admission of guilt or liability, and Macquarie is not taken to have contravened subsection 798H(1) of the Corporations ...

Former Gold Coast adviser banned

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... demonstrate the advice he provided and the information on which he provided it. ASIC commissioner Danielle Press said= SMSFs are not suitable for everyone, and advisers recommending SMSFs only for the purpose of borrowing money to purchase property should ...