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Few redundancies but pay cuts abound: Recruiter

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
The financial services industry in Australia is one of the lucky ones right now with businesses still operational but while firms seem keen to hang on to their people, pay cuts are commonplace. April insights from financial services recruiter Profusion ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... the ISM non-manufacturing employment index to 47 from 55.6 in February; and hiring plans contained in the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index (which fell by 8.1 points to a reading of 96.4 in March - the largest monthly decline in the survey's history) ...

Advisers adapt as crisis unfolds

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... businesses remained competitive and innovative well beyond the crisis. "The majority of financial advisers are small business owners, so many are focused on ensuring their businesses remain viable and sustainable beyond the current period of market uncertainty," ...

AFCA extends complaints response time

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... complaint, he said. "AFCA has been talking to key stakeholders and has heard the complexities facing financial firms, small business and consumers in the current environment," Locke said. "We have worked with ASIC to get an extension to the time financial ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... and big business, he said. "In the US, stimulus checks for families may start arriving any day now. However, the small business lending programs have stumbled badly out of the gate," Lafferty said. "Bailouts to large businesses take time to negotiate ...

COVID-19 sparks renewed fight for commissions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... of writing), thousands of experienced advisers leaving the industry and threatened the existence of thousands of small business owners and their mostly women employees and their families," AIOFP said in the submission. "Unless the Federal Government ...

US faces deepest recession on record

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
The US is facing a COVID-19 triggered recession that will be the worst on record, according to Bank of America economists. It comes as about 6.65 million people filed for unemployment in the US this week, in the highest level of claims received by the ...

New firm joins Count Financial network

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... Financial Planning is part of the wider Affinitas group, a Queensland-based business that provides individual and small business clients covering accounting, tax, finance, investment and personal insurance advice. The accounting practice services about ...

Rent relief welcome news for SMSFs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... SuperConcepts general manager of technical education services Peter Burgess. "The impacts of COVID-19 have hit small business particularly hard to the point where the related party can no longer afford to pay their rent." SMSFs have the ability for small ...

Banks throw more businesses a lifeline

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... struggling to do the right thing by their tenants during the crisis. The Australian Banking Association's (ABA) small business relief package now extends to 98% of businesses with loans from an Aussie bank, with the loan threshold for those who qualify ...