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APRA-regulated fund or SMSF: It's all the same

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... specialised team of investment professionals is not likely to make all too much of a difference. And, it would seem, a fair few Australians are looking to make the change to SMSFs, which the ATO said is something they have seen before. ATO assistant ...

Not the time to sell products

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... my financial future once I get a greater degree of confidence around what this means to me and my health. "And so the first few weeks of this crisis we were very much focused on actually not doing anything with financial markets. If I'm brutally ...

Tail-risk hedging pays off for super fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... volatility amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Vision Super has had tail-risk protection in place for its defined benefit plan for a few years. Chief investment officer Michael Wyrsch told Financial Standard that the strategy paid off during recent volatility. ...

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... economic data and corporate losses shifted what had been an almost eerily optimistic sentiment towards trade over the last few weeks. US markets had made somewhat of a recovery of late, with the S&P 500 recording a new monthly high just yesterday. In ...

COVID-19 damage to stretch several quarters: Natixis IM

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... global consumers eventually emerge from their bunkers," Lafferty said. "This sharp rebound will be short lived - perhaps a few weeks to a month (and staggered by country/region). The longer range picture however is more likely to be a U-shaped recovery ...

Isolated advisers enter the digital age

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... of Financial Advisers chief executive, Philip Kewin said. "But if there is one positive thing that has come out of the last few weeks, it's that you can see advisers have really clicked into another gear where their biggest priority is to pacify ...

Never say never to RBA help: First State Super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... to actively look at opportunities at the moment. That's something we have been going through a process of over the last few weeks, around what's starting to be the opportunity areas of interest and the opportunities that we want to be able to ...

What's next for income-focused funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... such as Coles, Woolworths, Metcash and IGA [which] are going gangbusters. Even Telstra, which has cut dividends over the last few years could be a beneficiary of the world telecommuting de riguer [during COVID] which has forced people to add to their ...

Trading platforms see record use

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... During the GFC, the platform "would have done trades amounting to 90,000 to 100,000" on key days during the GFC. "Over the past few weeks, we have hit nearly 500,000 trades on our busiest day with volume averaging between 300,000 to 400,000," Burns pointed ...

Australia's AAA rating at risk

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... interest cost nevertheless are likely to remain at elevated levels for a number of years," S&P said. Australia was one of the few countries that maintained its AAA rating during the Global Financial Crisis.