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Rice Warner weighs in on Your Future, Your Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... asset allocation, for example hedging against tail risk within asset sleeves," Rice Warner said. "Funds will know now whether they are going to fail the test in a year or two. Many will be unable to turn around their performance in this period without ...

Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... 16.3% and 16.0% in the S&P 500 and the Nikkei-225 index, respectively and the Euro Stoxx-50's 5.1% loss over the year. Whether or not the FTSE-100 rebounds or sinks deeper this year depends on how quickly the government gets on top of the fresh outbreak ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... renewed lockdowns in Europe and Asia and the new strain has now circled back to China, that in turn, puts a question mark on whether or not a new vaccine would need to be developed against the new strain. But if we learned anything from 2020, it is that ...

WAM sees court win over Keybridge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2021
... view, creates a material uncertainty in the Australian takeovers framework, such that a bidder can defer its decision whether to rely on triggered prescribed occurrences condition until the third day after the close of a bid," Keybridge said. Keybridge ...

FASEA exam results for November 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
... area of knowledge where many of those sitting the exam in November struggled. This part of the exam includes: Assessing whether the adviser has appropriately scoped the advice, demonstrating an understanding of the different types of advice, demonstrating ...

ASIC to review impact of ASX outage

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020
... if any, broader market adjustments might be necessary to reduce the impact of any future incidents. "ASIC will consider whether the failure by any market participants to already have in place arrangements to access an alternative venue is consistent ...

New heatmap shames trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... notices for their failure to move the needle since being warned a year ago to lift their game. It is now looking into whether trustees have failed in their obligations to members and potentially breached the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act ...

Missing Caddick's mansion on the line

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... which investor funds are held, Maliver's assets and liabilities, Maliver's solvency and financial record and an opinion on whether the company broke the law. Caddick's home in Sydney's Dover Heights was reported to be worth $7 million. ASIC is also cracking ...

Chief economist update: Government spending made money, saved money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... ongoing global trade tensions present a key downside risk to the outlook." And this, lads and ladettes, could determine whether Australia would need to spend more money to make money to save spending more money... because China is reducing spending on ...

Woman allegedly left out of will because she was born by artificial insemination

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020
... can remember. Once the marriage is over, the status as step-child is gone too in the eyes of the law. "The question of whether they are a step-child or not is based in law," he said. "A step-child ceases to be a step-child when the marriage dissolves ...