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How Aussie fundies are impacted by Trump tariffs

4 days ago | financialnewswire.com.au | Mike Taylor

The impact of the US Trump tariff regime makes should give investors in Australia’s publicly-listed fund managers pause, according to new analysis from research and ratings house, Morningstar. Morningstar equity analyst, Shaun Ler has pointed to the likelihood of the fund managers suffering a “a gradual medium-term earnings decline” due to fading cyclical tailwinds from rate cuts and rising volatility under the new US administration likely suppressing flows.
Financial adviser numbers stand at 15,610

4 days ago | financialnewswire.com.au | Mike Taylor

The total number of financial advisers on the Financial Adviser Register (FAR) has grown by 134 so far this year but churn between licensees remains the major factor.
Super diversification blunts Trump tariff impact

4 days ago | financialnewswire.com.au | Mike Taylor

The degree to which superannuation fund members should avoid being spooked by the impact of the US Trump tariffs has been demonstrated by new analysis from Chant West which suggests the impact through March and April is actually around a relatively modest 2%. With most financial advisers urging their clients to not be spooked into crystallising their losses, Chant West’s latest assessment said the median super fund (61 to 80% in growth assets was down 1.9% in March.
Challenger firms on 10% NPAT growth

4 days ago | financialnewswire.com.au | Mike Taylor

Challenger Limited has strengthened its expectation of 10% growth in net profit after tax for the 2025 financial year in a third quarter update which revealed a 5% decline in funds under management but a solid lift in annuity sales. The update, released to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) said the company had tightened its FY25 normalised net profit after tax guidance to a range of between $450 million and $465 million, with the mid-point of the range representing 10% growth on FY24.
Insignia grants competing PE bidders an extension

1 week ago | financialnewswire.com.au | Mike Taylor

The competing private equity bids for Insignia Financial remain on foot with Insignia granting the two parties an extension of their exclusive due diligence period. Insignia has announced to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) that it had granted the extension in response to requests from both bidders – Bain Capital and CC Capital Partners.
Tax Ombudsman told of ATO data-matching fail

1 week ago | financialnewswire.com.au | Mike Taylor

A data matching exercise focused on rental income on the part of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) led to people who did not own rental properties receiving letters suggesting they had failed to declare income. Major accounting group Chartered Accountants ANZ has told the Tax Ombudsman there is a need for the ATO to review its processes to ensure the appropriateness of data that is being relied upon when using third party data matching to produce a mass mailout.
Is Mulino ALP’s next Financial Services pick?

1 week ago | financialnewswire.com.au | Mike Taylor

With the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones not returning to the Parliament after the upcoming Federal Election, a front-runner to succeed him the portfolio is ACT Labor backbencher, Daniel Mulino. Mulino, who was a Labor member in the Victorian Legislative Council between 2014 and 2018 and who won the Canberra seat of Fraser at the 2019 Federal Election would come to the financial services portfolio with exceptionally strong credentials.
Financial services want bipartisan policy common sense

1 week ago | financialnewswire.com.au | Mike Taylor

As the Federal Election moves into its final weeks, industry lobby groups are seeking to extract undertakings from the major party on key policy issues including the compensation scheme of last resort (CSLR) and the taxation of unrealised capital gains.
After Trump’s tariff pause: Asia to feel most pain, LatAm & CEE to emerge mostly unscathed

1 week ago | financialnewswire.com.au | Patrick Buncsi

The Trump Administration’s temporary pause on its ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – which introduced a minimum 10% to up to 49% impost on goods from more than 50 economies worldwide – is unlikely to be extended nor change drastically in this time, says European investment juggernaut Amundi, with Asia’s emerging markets (EMs) to bear the worst consequences of the trade war.
Institutional investors hold firm despite heightened geopolitical risks

1 week ago | financialnewswire.com.au | Patrick Buncsi

Investors appear to be holding their portfolios steady despite a significant proportion acknowledging mounting geopolitical risks. A snap poll of more than 160 institutional investors worldwide, conducted by London-based investment consultancy group Bfinance, found that most have not altered their strategic positions in response to the current trade war-driven economic maelstrom.