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Women receive worse advice: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Financial advisers tend to give female clients poorer advice and recommend riskier assets compared to male clients, a new study shows. Women are significantly more likely to receive undiversified financial advice than men, researchers from the Hong ...

Chief economist update: Is Dan still the man?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... AAA status. However, a downgrade in Victoria's credit rating is the least of Andrews' problems. Dan's bigger worry would be Victorians getting antsy for their freedom, who's number are growing every single day they are locked down.

Chief economist update: Fed heads for the mountain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
"If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain." True to its legend, the Jackson Hole symposium - online as it may be this year due to the pandemic - produced another significant shift in US monetary policy. On August ...

Chief economist update: Comeback COVID

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
"One, two, Freddy's coming for you Three, four, better lock your door Five, six, grab a crucifix Seven, eight, ya better stay awake Nine, ten, he's back again." Just replace "Freddy" with "COVID" and this Nightmare on Elm Street remake of the ...

Wealthy Aussies panic buy life insurance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
High net worth investors have resorted to panic buying life insurance products as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic despite low trust in the providers, according to the latest research from GlobalData. The analytics and data firm's 2020 Global Wealth ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
Is this the new normal cycle? The cycle of coronavirus cycling its way around the world and infection, containment through social distancing and lockdowns, easing of restrictions, and back to infection - the second wave? This cycle hit home when the ...

Chief economist update: Good US employment news is not so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
There's good news and bad news in the US labour market report for July. First, the good news: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that total non-farm payrolls rose by 1.8 million in July - more than market expectations for an increase ...

It's your money: Hume calls out Keating

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... struggles facing everyday Australians. "It's your money. Not government's. Not the super funds'. And insiders who don't have to worry about their next pay cheque shouldn't lecture you for accessing it when you need it most," she tweeted. She followed ...

Australians without advice struggle in pandemic: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... wellbeing of 200 advised and 220 unadvised Australians during May, found that more than half (52.8%) of unadvised Australians worry about their money daily or weekly, while this drops to just over one in three (36.5%) for those with advisers. Interesting ...

AMP should stop whining: Slater and Gordon

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... government's inquiry into class actions is being driven by a business lobby and that big business doesn't want to have to worry about customers taking them to court. "AMP charged dead superannuation customers for life insurance, knowing there was no ...