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FASEA extension to pass next week

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... when the industry was busy responding to the Royal Commission and working though new education requirements. "The health pandemic has put things into perspective and right now it is essential that financial planners are able to provide advice to those ...

Macquarie advice shift offers mixed results

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... managing director and chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake said the result was subject to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. "The final months of the financial year were overshadowed by the profound human impact of the COVID-19 global health crisis ...

ASIC releases weekly regulatory tracker

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
ASIC has launched a new weekly regulatory tracker to assist users during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tracker lists and includes links to all new and updated regulatory guides, information sheets, reports and consultation papers issued by ASIC and published ...

AMP NZ wealth divestment off

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... that met the company's expectations. It also pointed to the economic and market disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason for throwing its divestment plans out the window. "AMP held discussions with a number of interested parties regarding ...

Chief economist update: Annus horribilis with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... succeeded Carney effective 16 March 2020 (three days after the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus as a pandemic) is now looking at the mother of all recessions (depression?) at least in our lifetime (crossed fingers). According to the ...

Frontline worker death nominations spike

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... months," Cameron said. The data comes after the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics heard the COVID-19 pandemic has driven Australians to ask their life insurers about whether their policies cover them for suicide. If you or someone ...

Darwinian time for super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... member outcomes," she said. The debate came as Link Group revealed it too was expecting more mergers to emanate from the pandemic, in an investor update to the Macquarie Australia Investor Conference. Outlining how the firm expected its various business ...

A challenge in a Class of its own

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... predicament recently after acquiring a business in another state only for the borders to be closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Class, which is based in Sydney, purchased NowInfinity, based in Queensland, at the start of February for $25 million ...

How early release impacts the ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... its members and plan for such when making asset allocation decisions, she said. But who could have planned for a global pandemic? "The unexpected COVID-19 crisis plus the government's announcement of ERS have severely affected this liquidity planning ...

Emerging markets weather varied COVID-19 storms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has not discriminated in its destruction of both developed and emerging economies, Janus Henderson has warned investors to prepare for a dispersion of outcomes in the post-pandemic world. The more advanced emerging economies ...