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Adviser salaries unchanged: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
The latest insights from Kaizen Recruitment show the benchmark salaries for financial advisers and paraplanners remain as they were in early 2019. The recruitment firm found that senior financial advisers with more than 10 years of experience can expect ...

Cyber criminals jump on ERS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
Reports of cybercrime increased significantly after the government announced the Early Release of Superannuation (ERS) and JobKeeper schemes, according to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. ACCC chair Rod Simms told the joint committee ...

Housing values continue to slide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... environment, having led both the upswing and the downturn over previous cycles. The COVID related downturn has seen this trend playing out again, with upper quartile values down 2.9% across the combined capital city index since the end of March, while ...

Tasmania leads the nation: CommSec

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... job market. And home building is strong in Tasmania because population growth is well above 'normal'," CommSec said. "In trend terms starts in the ACT were 21.7% above the decade-average, followed by Tasmania (up 20.5%). South Australia is now in third ...

US considers restricting ESG in pensions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
The US Department of Labor (DOL) is considering imposing strict rules on how pension funds invest, which could see the scope for ethical and responsible investing limited. The DOL has proposed an amendment to the Employee Retirement Income Security ...

Class launches Xplan integration

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
Class has completed its integration with Iress' financial software solution Xplan, with the offering now available for new Class Super and Class Portfolio customers as a public pilot. The data feed will enable financial advisers and accountants to seamlessly ...

Sovereign investors keen on gold, infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... problem faced by central banks. How can they diversify away from USD without sacrificing liquidity and convertibility. This trend was particularly prominent among emerging market banks, where almost 90% were drawing on USD allocations to boost gold reserves." ...

Stimulus stutters amid record unemployment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
The government's announcement of the new JobTrainer package was met with calls to extend the existing JobSeeker and JobKeeper measures as devastating unemployment numbers were released. Unemployment has now hit 7.4%, the highest it has been in two decades ...

Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... on healthcare solutions, and a favourable view towards online and remote working products and services." He believes this trend will continue for the foreseeable future. High performing managers with healthcare or IT exposures (or both) include fund's ...

CFS drops fees on external fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... base fees to 1.40%. Performance fees for both versions stay at 20%. The changes came into effect June 8. The strategy uses trend-following systems with exposure to 230 of the most liquid global financial and commodity futures, currency forwards and (through ...