Can an SMSF member with a majority interest in the Fund expel another member? 

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The maximum number of members in an SMSF is expected to increase from 4 to 6 in near future. With economies of scale/pooling of resources, this could open doors to... Read more continue reading

Westpac sells Lenders Mortgage Insurance business to Arch Capital and enters 10 year supply agreement

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Westpac Group has announced it will sell Westpac Lenders Mortgage Insurance Limited (WLMI) to Arch Capital Group (Arch) and enter into a 10-year exclusive supply agreement for Arch to provide... Read more continue reading

Synchron issues urgent call for life insurers to clarify responses to new Unfair Contract Terms regime

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Synchron is issuing an urgent call to life insurers to clarify how they will treat policies that lapse, change ownership, change premium structure, or need corrections, under the new Unfair... Read more continue reading

New bfinance report reveals renewables sector has transformed into a diverse, global and highly competitive asset class

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Appetite for renewable energy infrastructure has been extremely strong, buoyed by ESG agendas as well as broader demand for infrastructure as an asset class. The COVID-19 crisis threw a spotlight... Read more continue reading

Moore’s Law and the race for the rest of the chessboard

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Gordon Moore, the famous founder of Intel, set forth his prediction in 1965 that the number of transistors per silicon chip should double every two years. In this this paper... Read more continue reading

Raiz Invest has SMSFs in its sights

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Raiz Invest, Australia’s largest mobile-first financial services platform, is targeting the $730 billion self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector as part of its strategy to accelerate the growth in its Funds... Read more continue reading

Nuveen Real Estate commits to net zero carbon global portfolio by 2040

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Nuveen Real Estate, one of the largest real estate investment managers globally, has publicly committed to making the global property portfolio it manages, worth $133 billion, operationally net zero carbon... Read more continue reading

Resetting the cycle – The old normal

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For mostly obvious reasons, 2020 was the wildest year in recent memory for the global economy and markets across all asset classes. We saw markets fall and economic activity collapse,... Read more continue reading

Emerging market equities: Same storm, different boats

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Daniel J. Graña, CFA, Emerging Market Equity Portfolio Manager at Janus Henderson, explains how north Asia countries were able to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic with relative success while other emerging... Read more continue reading

Pension Boost questions Income Review report outcomes

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The founder of a retirement specialist that assists seniors to access the Government’s reverse-mortgage solution (known as the Pension Loans Scheme) hopes that the Retirement Income Review leads to more help for... Read more continue reading