2020 will be another testing year for businesses seeking insurance cover

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Honan Insurance Group’s (Honan) December 2019 Quarterly Market Update has been released and the report foresees 2020 as another year that will again test businesses seeking insurance cover said Travis Wendt, Honan’s Head... Read more continue reading

Do you have the Will to cope with the ‘roaring 20s’?

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Not just a new year, but a new decade has arrived – the new ‘roaring 20s’ – but can your Will cope with the decade ahead? “If you think about... Read more continue reading

New whitepaper benchmarks the cost of life insurance advice

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A new MLC Life Insurance commissioned whitepaper into the cost and efficiency of life insurance advice reveals risk advisers must examine their cost base to be sustainable in a reduced... Read more continue reading

Lonsec helps investors through the ESG maze

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Lonsec has partnered with specialist data provider Sustainable Platform to enable its research users to assess the social and environmental sustainability of their clients’ investments. Lonsec will continue to assess... Read more continue reading

They will sort it out when I’m gone (and other flawed estate planning assumptions)

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It’s a common assumption fraught with danger: Many people appoint one of their children to be the executor of their will – expecting (or hoping) that everything will be resolved... Read more continue reading

Tax-managing a RAFI portfolio busts the ‘low turnover is tax efficient’ myth

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Superannuation funds moving to a rules-based equity management approach could improve their performance by more than half a percentage point a year by genuinely focusing on after-tax, not pre-tax, returns.... Read more continue reading

Selling member’s business real estate into SMSF

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Townsend Lawyers’ Jeff Song explains that this strategy, though perhaps not quite as attractive, is still viable. From 1 July 2018 new law provides that in certain circumstances the outstanding... Read more continue reading

Quantitative investment delivers positive investor outcomes

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The essence of a quantitative investment approach is straight-forward: it is the utilisation of rational economic and fundamental investment insights in a disciplined and consistent fashion. In this article from... Read more continue reading

Australians not yet prepared for largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history

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New research from Perpetual reveals over half of Australians (56%) do not currently have a will in place and more than half of parents (53%) have not discussed their will and... Read more continue reading

Super funds that invest responsibly outperform peers – new RIAA study

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Australian super funds that comprehensively engage in responsible investment are outperforming their peers over one, three and five-year time frames, a new report from the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA)... Read more continue reading