Market rents explode across the country

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SQM Research has revealed national residential property rental vacancy rates fell to 1% in March 2022, down from 1.2% in February 2022. This represents half the total number of vacancies... Read more continue reading

Consumer confidence and spending intentions lift    

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Weekly consumer confidence; CBA Household Spending Intentions & card spending The ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence index rose by 1.3 per cent to 94.6 in the past week. Commonwealth Bank (CBA)... Read more continue reading

VFMC and CFA Societies Australia join initiative to attract more women into investments

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State-owned asset manager Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) and CFA Societies Australia are the latest organisations to join Future IM/Pact – an industry campaign building a pipeline of future female... Read more continue reading

North’s ESG AUM growing 6.5 times faster than other investments

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North, one of Australia’s leading investment platforms, has seen assets under management (AUM) for its environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment options grow 6.5 times faster than non-ESG investments during... Read more continue reading

Weekly economic and market update – week ending 8 April, 2022

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Investment markets and key developments Global share markets fell over the last week mainly on the back of hawkish central banks and ever rising bond yields. Australian shares also fell... Read more continue reading

Citi Australia appoints senior manager with focus on super

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Citi Australia’s Markets business has welcomed a new Managing Director adding senior coverage in line with the growth of its superannuation offering. Nicki Ashton has been named Senior Relationship Manager... Read more continue reading

Helen Thom joins Advice Revolution as Head of Sales

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Advice Revolution has bolstered its senior team by appointing Helen Thom as Head of Sales. Thom comes with over 20 years of experience in the financial advice industry and advice... Read more continue reading

Best practice advice top of SMSF mindset as heavyweights join the SMSF Association National Conference

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The demand for retirement advice overshadows most other areas of financial advice, but the costs, complexity, and lack of adviser tools often drive advisers away. If the need to evolve... Read more continue reading

Bank Australia commits to 2035 net zero target

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Bank Australia has announced its commitment to achieve net zero emissions across its operations, and lending and investment portfolio by 2035. The 2035 net zero target is the headline commitment... Read more continue reading

Alphinity Investment Management lowers global equities management fees

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Leading Australian and global equities fund manager Alphinity Investment Management is lowering the management fees of its two global equity funds from 1.00% to 0.75% (inclusive of GST and net... Read more continue reading