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Chief economist update: Credit ratings downgrades versus fiscal salvation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... data shows that as of April 6, 2020, there were a total of 4,107 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country. Still relatively low, but multiplying. Perhaps it's the 4000 mark that pushed Prime Minister Abe to declare a month-long ...

FPA launches benchmarking tool

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... prompted to answer questions on their business online. De Gori said the new tool would help secure the sustainability of the country's financial advice practices. "In the evolving nature of our profession, this sort of technology and innovation will ...

Stimulus is finite: Prime Minister

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... economy to support Australians without the unprecedented JobKeeper and JobSeeker supplements." Governments around the country, Morrison stressed, are not only focussed on whether the health system can cope but on ensuring that the duration of limitations ...

NFP super fund performance revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... Rainmaker compiled a tally of March investment returns from 15 MySuper products run by NFP funds - including some of the country's largest - that declare daily unit prices and crediting rates. The analysis shows returns across the 15 funds ranged from ...

The catalysts for a rebound

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... co-director of global income at Eaton Vance. "Broadly, this is a good environment for us, given our focus on individual country-level policy and economic fundamentals." Cirami said the investment manager has been building up liquidity and trimming risk ...

Hundreds of thousands flock to early release

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... (TPB) as they work together to assist professionals navigate their clients through the crisis. The ATO and TPB said as the country confronts the COVID-19 crisis, many professionals would have seen impacts to clients and their own business. "We know you ...

Chief economist update: Different contagion, same fiscal policy divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... decline in the number of deaths. The French were put under house arrest on March 17 and a day short of three weeks, the country has reported its lowest daily death toll in a week. Hope for the best... Certainly, a swallow doesn't a spring make but ...

US faces deepest recession on record

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... as about 6.65 million people filed for unemployment in the US this week, in the highest level of claims received by the country's Labor Department in its history. It brings the total number of people that have filed for unemployment in the US to just ...

Pandemic response concerns overblown

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... the GFC, Richardson points out interest rates are just a fifth of what Australia was forced to back then, leaving the country with half the interest burden it was saddled with at the time. "The ongoing annual interest bill for these new borrowings will ...

Business unusual: COVID-19 threats facing real estate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... Principal Real Estate Investors client portfolio manager, Todd Kellenberger. "The impact on the office sector will vary by country, depending on the length of average lease periods and how long the lock-downs continue," he said. "There will be tenants ...