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Chief economist update: Still the best and better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
Victorian supermarkets - Woolworths and Coles - have re-introduced buying limits in their stores as hoarders and panic-buyers returned, raiding shelves of toilet paper, paper towel, hand sanitiser, rice, pasta, flour, sugar and the like following reports ...

Investment scams pry $126m from Aussie hands

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
Australians lost $126 million to investment scams in 2019, with many fraudsters using 'celebrity' endorsements to rort investors. According to the latest figures coming out of the ACCC's Targeting Scams report, Australians were defrauded ...

Plan for the worst, hope for the best

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... different." However, there are still positives on the horizon, he argued, with equity markets likely to climb on a "wall of worry" over time. "We're always nervous on the way up in the bull market," Wilson said. "One of the good things about bear ...

Technical Services Forum: Testing risk tolerance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... assets are likely to last, relative to that uncertain timeframe for life expectancy, it's not surprising to hear people worry about how long their savings and investments will last through retirement," he said. "What we have seen is clients who have ...

Advisers split on COVID-19 opportunity

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... advice professionals feel well supported," Lloyd said. "It was fantastic to see that in this environment characterised by worry and anxiety, most advisers are saying they have this pandemic in perspective, are active and planning for the months ahead. ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... a 'three steps forward, two steps back' type of recovery - at best," Miller said. "Given where valuations are, I worry that there's still some downside to risk markets and if there's downside to risk markets, you don't want to be ...

Now is the time to step up: FEW

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... in a healthy way," she said. "Keep your cool and work to the 80/20 rule - what's the fluff that you don't really need to worry about, and what are the really important things?"

More super funds will merge: QMV

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... almost starts to get to the point where you say, do we have enough competition? We're a fair way from really having to worry about that but what we will have is two behemoths," Forbes said. "We've got a whole lot of much, much smaller boutique ...

ANZ accused of exploiting staff

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
The Finance Sector Union has accused ANZ of exploiting staff in an effort to pad out its results, with the big bank hitting back. An FSU spokesperson said the union had received "hundreds" of complaints after ANZ asked all staff to take their accrued ...

COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... prolonged period-combined with low growth rates-could pressure ratings." Then again, as in Facebook, is now the time to worry about likes?