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Retirement income covenant delayed

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... continue to work on retirement income strategies even though the covenant still needs development. "Of course, there is nothing stopping funds and their trustees from developing retirement income strategies now and we'd encourage them to do so," she ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... borders shuttered; those with the most number of infections - New South Wales and Victoria - did not close their borders (nothing to lose I guess). Broadly, this spat boils down to what every government around the world is weighing - return to economic ...

Behavioural tools to limit losses, fear

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... plague clients during times of crisis, she said. "Investors feel paralysed; they don't know what to do, so they do nothing, and in some cases, this may actually be a benefit because they're avoiding their reality and they may not move their money," ...

ASIC secures $160m in remediation over junk credit insurance

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... business to sell junk insurance." The sales practices of this product were systematic and unjust, she said. "There is nothing fair about selling on-going consumer credit insurance to a 65-year-old when eligibility falls away at 66," Chester said. "There ...

Culture is key in a crisis: Australian Ethical

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... said. "It's equally important to communicate with your customers as your employees and directors, even if you've got nothing to say," she said. "You've got to keep that culture alive and people are expecting leaders to communicate. "When they're ...

ERS paused as AFP investigates fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... allow time for a proper investigation. "We want the ATO today, out of an abundance of caution, to make sure that there's nothing more we can do to help people protecting their data, to ensure that people are not the victims of identity theft, as is being ...

Superannuation startup launches raise

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... saving 7-8% of their income towards their retirement each year, which is incredible given they were most likely saving nothing beforehand," GigSuper co-founder Peter Stanhope said. The fund will put the money towards client acquisition, education resources ...

How Cbus is servicing early release requests

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... our positions, we are still underweight [in unlisted assets]. Cbus property have got developments that are finalising...nothing what was already planned in. We haven't gone out to sell down or anything like that," Fok said.

COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Nothing focuses the mind as the choice between life and death. This choice has been thrust onto Planet Earth's population by the coronavirus pandemic. So much so, that men, women and children of the world are giving up - willingly or grudgingly ...

The domino effect: Oil falls, markets follow

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... coronavirus taskforce presser overnight, US President Donald Trump said now is the time to be buying oil. "If we can buy it for nothing we are going to take everything we can get," he said. "The only thing I like better than that is when they pay you ...