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Court restricts Mayfair advertising

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
The Federal Court has restricted Mayfair 101 from promoting its debenture products and prohibited the use of specific words and phrases in its advertising. The order comes after ASIC made an application to the court for an interim injunction at the ...

Law firm cuts pay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
Slater and Gordon directors and senior executives will see their pay reduced by 10-15%, as the ASX-listed legal powerhouse moves to strengthen its balance sheet amid the COVID-19 crisis. Slater and Gordon's directors, chief executive and executive leadership ...

Aussies flood to ERS as applications open

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
The Australian Taxation Office has confirmed over 881,000 Australians have registered their interest in the government's early release scheme. An ATO spokesperson told Financial Standard that while official applications for the COVID-19 early release ...

Healthcare outperforms as financials plummet

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen Australia's healthcare sector soar as our financials, energy and real estate sectors plummet. However, S&P Dow Jones Indices senior director of global equity indices Michael Orzano said it's a trend that has been ...

Telstra issues 10-year bond

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
Telstra has issued an $860 million 10-year bond as it moves to further strengthen its balance sheet. The bond, issued at €500 million, has been priced under Telstra's debt issuance program, and will be issued on April 23. Telstra said it would use ...

Chief economist update: Surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... and confidence. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment plummeted by 17.7% to a reading of 75.6 in April - the biggest monthly decline in the survey's 47-year history -- from 91.9 in March. The unemployment expectations index ...

Top picks for dividends during COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
UBS says the dividend dip in Australian stocks in the next year could be worse than the Global Financial Crisis, but six stocks are poised to pay good dividends. In 2008, dividends fell by $10.5 billion (or 28%) to $44.9 billion. But this time, dividends ...

Pension pots around the world during COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
Governments around the world are springing into action to leverage and safeguard pension pots during the COVID-19 economic and market turmoil. Australia in March allowed workers to withdraw $10,000 for this financial year and the next from their superannuation ...

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
US stocks ended in a sea of red on Wednesday as bleak 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 ...

ASIC provides relief around early super access advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
ASIC has announced three temporary measures to assist the industry with providing affordable and timely advice during the COVID-19 crisis. It has also confirmed it is delaying its work on grandfathered conflicted remuneration and life insurance advice. ...