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Chief economist update: Japan reopens for business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
It was a magnificent Monday, 25 May 2020, for Japan for on this day Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared the country's state of emergency over. We salute you our Japanese brothers and sisters, for Japan has flattened its coronavirus curve despite ...

FASEA extension en route

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... enable the bill for the FASEA education extension to return to non-controversial business, as it was listed before last Monday," she said. "At a time like this, people need financial advice and financial advisers need certainty. "Labor conflated two ...

March ASX200 volatility worse than GFC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... in March exceed other extreme world events including the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Black Monday on 8 August 2011 which followed the credit rating downgrade of US sovereign debt, the US and Chinese flash market crashes of ...

Mudslinging over FASEA extension continues

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... support the bill to Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology Senator Jane Hume on Monday night, and said it would be "regrettable" if the Senator withdrew the bill as a result of Labor's amendment. "If the Assistant ...

Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
News that the Australian economy may be opening sooner than previously thought saw the S&P/ASX 200 surge on Monday, with investors buying into heavily sold-off sectors. Today, markets have dropped on fears of a second wave, with news of fresh cases ...

Super funds release $1.3bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... releasing benefits to eligible members as soon as practicable," Rowell said. APRA said it intends to publish updated data every Monday, and will expand the publication next week to include fund-level data.

How Cbus is servicing early release requests

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... estimate was based on COVID shutdowns as they stood then. "The way it panned out is that in the first two days (Sunday and Monday) we received $128 million from almost 15,000 members and then we saw daily amounts lower than that, they were hovering around ...

Future Fund not buying the oil dip

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... crashed to record low last week but Australia's $162 billion sovereign wealth fund says it has no plans to buy the dip. Last Monday, immediate contracts for WTI crude fell into the negative territory. The drop prompted the US government to stockpile ...

Calls for super funds, government to collaborate on energy security

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... expert. Energy minister Angus Taylor said the government will buy $94 million of crude oil, after oil prices tumbled on Monday and the United States also topped up its reserve. It will be initially stored in the United States for 10 years. Australia ...

Aussie ETF investors got oil bets wrong before crash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... expecting oil prices to stabilise after the recent OPEC deal to cut down production by 30% in the wake of an oversupply. On Monday, May WTI futures contracts slipped into negative territory for the first time, as COVID-19 shutdowns continue to bog down ...