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AAT slashes adviser ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024
A financial adviser banned from practising for two years for failing to keep appropriate records had the term slashed in half by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). The AAT varied ASIC's decision to ban Christopher Betalli from providing ...

ANZ, Blackstone launch HNWI fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
ANZ and global alternatives fund manager Blackstone have launched a multi-asset strategy for high-net-worth investors (HNWI). The Graphene Alternative Fund is an Australian unit trust and absolute-return strategy that is exclusive to ANZ Private clients. ...

Brighter Super launches Retire Easy Pension

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
Brighter Super has introduced the Retire Easy Pension strategy, which involves dividing a member's retirement savings into three distinct buckets. Launching the product last month, Brighter Super said it marks the first stage of the fund's new ...

RBA minutes confirm potential August rate hike

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released the minutes from its June board meeting at which it held interest rates steady, but confirmed it did consider the possibility of a hike. The minutes also confirmed the RBA is vigilant to the upside risks ...

ATO seeks submissions on defining an 'employee'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has issued a draft update to its tax ruling TR 2023/4 for consultation which determines when a person is considered an employee under the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (SGAA). The draft update ...

Rest's MySuper option returns 8.67% in FY24

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2024
Rest's core strategy default MySuper investment option, where most of its two million members are invested, delivered a one-year return of 8.67% over the last financial year. This exceeds its long-term average annual return of 8.29% since July 1988. ...

AustralianSuper unleashes raft of investment and fee changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2024
AustralianSuper has unveiled a raft of changes to its investment exposures and fees which came into effect July 1. Across its MySuper, Choice and TTR Income products, the super fund has removed its exposure to listed infrastructure and listed property. ...

Corporate borrowing hits all-time high despite interest rates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
The world's largest listed companies took on US$378 billion of net new debt last financial year, driving corporate debt to an unprecedented US$8.18 trillion, according to Janus Henderson's latest corporate debt index. While significant, the increase ...

BlackRock acquires Preqin in $4.8bn deal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2024
BlackRock has agreed to acquire Preqin for £2.55 billion or approximately US$3.2 billion ($4.8 billion) in cash. BlackRock said bringing together Preqin's data and research tools with Aladdin's complementary workflow capabilities in a unified platform ...

New recruits top advice industry priority: FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2024
The industry is urgently prioritising the recruitment of new advisers as those who remain bear the brunt of paying heftier levies that aggravate the costs of running a business and puts financial advice further out of reach for Australians. The latest ...