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Banks urged to step up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe and APRA chair Wayne Byres have called on the big banks to support the Australian COVID-19 recovery, rather than their shareholders. Speaking during a FINSIA webinar, Lowe said over the past decade APRA ...

Super advocate takes FSC to task over TPD tests

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... Loane said that with changes to TPD definitions occurring only after that amount of time, some Australians who lost their job, were stood down or had reduced working hours due to COVID, might have seen their TPD coverage change from June 11, three months ...

Industry flocks to JobKeeper handouts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Nearly 13,500 businesses in financial services and insurance enrolled for JobKeeper payments, according to an industry-level breakdown from the Australian Taxation Office. JobKeeper enrolments crossed 835,000 businesses employing over 5.5 million workers ...

Rich Dad feels for financial advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... he feels for financial advisers amid the COVID-19 pandemic - though he won't be taking their advice. "They have a tough job, a very tough job," Kiyosaki said. Kiyosaki's own financial adviser is John MacGregor who recently released his own book ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... Renewed trade tensions, poor economic and earnings data, the risk of a second wave of infections, as well as bankruptcies and job losses, threaten to topple markets and investor sentiment - however, Natixis Investment Managers head of global market strategy ...

Financial stress increases despite relaxed conditions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Australians are more financially stressed than they were before the Prime Minister announced plans to restart the nation's economy, according to latest research. The latest wave of the Melbourne Institute's Taking the pulse of the nation survey shows ...

Australia approaches fiscal cliff: UBS

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... overstate the change in employed people - as nearly one million people work in multiple jobs. "Today's payrolls data implies job losses of only ~22k in the two weeks to May 2, for a ~100k decrease in the May LFS reference period; albeit for a cumulative ...

Proceed with caution: Janus Henderson

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
The head of global asset allocation at Janus Henderson has sounded the alarm on risk assets, warning the rally seen in April has so far ignored the threat of economic tailwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic. Janus Henderson's Ashwin Alankar warned investors ...

Willis Towers Watson ushers in the future of work

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
The global advisory and brokerage firm has announced the launch of an artificial intelligence driven software that will help companies rethink and redesign their workforce amid the current uncertain environment. Based upon the firm's 'reinventing jobs' ...

Multi-boutique warns of fourth quarter reckoning

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... stop there, she warned. "Bankruptcies create negative feedback loops, particularly for the labour market. A second wave of job losses is perhaps in the cards," Shah said. Although markets may be able to look through dismal Q2 figures in anticipation ...