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ASIC provides relief around early super access advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... said, ASIC said it still expects product issuers to turn off their arrangements as soon as possible and by no later than 1 January 2021. In regards to life insurance advice, ASIC said advisers should be cautious about recommending replacement cover to ...

Vanguard boosts superannuation team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... Australia, with several key appointments made in recent months. Garry Caldow was brought on as product lead, insurance in January. He joined Vanguard from Mercer after a decade long career at Colonial First State. Michael Lovettt returned from Vanguard's ...

Chief economist update: BOK holds as infections ease

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... Composite Consumer Sentiment Index dropped to an 11-year low reading of 78.4 in March from 96.9 in February and 104.2 in January. Business confidence has also fallen to its lowest level since the GFC to 56 in March from 65 in February and 76 in January. ...

AustralianSuper increases premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... the fund's new 'Administration fee - Protecting Your Super' fee - first reported by Financial Standard in January - coming into effect this month.

Wall Street surges as Sanders drops out, Wuhan reopens

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... government ended its 11-week lockdown of Wuhan, where more than 11 million people had been sealed within the city since January 23 in an effort to contain the outbreak of the virus. Now, residents and visitors that had been locked in the city will be ...

Fiducian grows adviser network

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... crisis, impacting not only millions of lives through health concerns but furthermore on the economic marketplace. "Since January the world has been shaken by the impacts of the global pandemic, COVID-19. It is hard to see a positive during these dark ...

Chief economist update: COVID-infected Aussie stats trickle in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... job ads index dropped by 10.3% in the month of March (following a 1.2% gain in Feb) - the fastest rate of decline since January 2009 that indicates further deterioration in the labour market going forward. Similarly, the Australian Bureau of Statistics' ...

CBA appoints chief economist

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... markets research. Stephen Halmarick nabbed the new role this week, having been with the bank's research team since January 2018. He takes over from Michael Blythe, who spent 24 years with the bank, as CBA moves to trim its research team. "The role ...

COVID-19 sparks renewed fight for commissions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... help advisers through the COVID-19 crisis. The proposed new date for the banning of grandfathered commissions would be 1 January 2023. The AIOFP also requested that ASIC "stop its current activity of encouraging manufacturers to terminate grandfathered ...

Return of the king

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... cash as part of your portfolio may not be sexy, but in uncertain times investors are rushing back to old faithful. In January this year, Financial Standard published a piece on cash management and all those who held cash also held the same mentality ...