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No early super release for DV survivors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... property of less than $500,000 between parties following a relationship breakdown. "After separation or divorce, women experience far more significant drops in household income than men... It is a time-consuming process and for many women it is too costly ...

Personal, business tax cuts revealed

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
The government has retained the low-and-middle income tax offset (LMITO) for another year and introduced a tax cut for small to medium businesses in the 2021/22 budget in a bid to create more jobs and support business investment. Low-and middle-income ...

Australia is coming back: Frydenberg

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... is coming back," treasurer Josh Frydenberg said. At the height of the pandemic, Treasury feared unemployment could reach as far as 15% and the economy contract by 20%. "This would have meant two million Australians unemployed. It would have been the ...

Key Treasury initiatives outlined

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... our financial system, including greater powers for regulators and $11.2 million to enhance super fund member outcomes. While far from the headline measures introduced, this year's budget included numerous tweaks to the financial system's structure, processes ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
Wall Street benchmark equity indices closed on the up and up on May 7 - the Dow and the S&P 500 index even rallied new record highs -- the same day the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed disappointing labour market stats. The US economy added ...

Centrepoint Alliance hires from Morningstar

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
Centrepoint Alliance has appointed a head of business and operations for its recently acquired advice software arm Enzumo. Farisha Cabrera will step into the position. She was most recently senior product manager for financial planning at Morningstar. ...

Farmland value grows in all states

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
For the first time since 2005, every single state in Australia saw the price of farmland increase. The median price per hectare of Australian farmland increased by 12.9%, with the nation enjoying its seventh consecutive year of farmland value growth. ...

Adviser software soft launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... software 18 months ago after seeing frustrations from advisers using expensive and clunky software. The solution has thus far garnered some 150 pre-registered users. Superannuation and investment products are items that are regularly tweaked on a client-by-client ...

JPMAM Australia chief to retire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
After more than a decade with the business, J.P. Morgan Asset Management's local chief executive Rachel Farrell is set to retire later this year. Farrell first joined JPMAM in Singapore in 2011 as head of sovereign and institutional clients, South ...

LGIAsuper picks custodian for merged fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
LGIAsuper, which is merging with Energy Supe r and recently bought S uncorp's superannuation assets, has appointed a new custodian for the total $28 billion in assets. The merged industry fund will use NAB Asset Servicing as its custodian, siding ...