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Road to recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
While it is clear it will take some time for the world to return to what it once was, the focus is now on recovery and what the post-pandemic world will look like. Kyle Loades, chair of the Australian Transformation and Turnaround Association (AusTTA) ...

Behavioural tools to limit losses, fear

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
Market volatility is unavoidable, especially after a significant crash, but focusing on practical techniques to limit behavioural risk can help financial advisers limit the fear, anxiety and grief that they and their clients may be feeling. Behavioural ...

Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
News that the Australian economy may be opening sooner than previously thought saw the S&P/ASX 200 surge on Monday, with investors buying into heavily sold-off sectors. Today, markets have dropped on fears of a second wave, with news of fresh cases ...

Death of dividends greatly exaggerated: Epoch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
In the midst of Australian companies cutting dividends due to the effects of COVID-19, Epoch Investment Partners says investors can still generate dividend income from offshore. Damien McIntyre, chief executive of GSFM, the distributor of Epoch's ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
Easing of central bank monetary policy settings helped equity markets rebound and economies to recover from the "Great Recession" wrought by the Global Financial Crisis of 2009. Easing - this time, of social distancing and lockdown restrictions (implemented ...

APRA releases fund-level ERS data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... 127,500 applications, paid out 93,731 totalling more than $660 million, and 99.8% were paid within five days. Similarly, Rest fulfilled 99.1% of its payments within five days. Of the 106,441 requests received, it paid out 79,936 totaling $584 million. ...

Former Cbus advice head launches referral program

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
Cbus's former head of advice Greg Harper has launched a national referral program, looking to connect superannuation funds, accounting firms and other service organisations with financial planning groups. fpCentral, offered by Harper's firm ...

ASIC delivers thinly veiled warning

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
ASIC has warned consumers about advertising that compares fixed-term investment products to bank term deposits, the issue it is pursuing Mayfair 101 over. ASIC said a surge in marketing of fixed-term investment products in recent months had prompted ...

Insurtech investments down 54% in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... million had been raised; by February 6, that figure was just over US$450 million. But it took until the end of March - the rest of the quarter - to double that amount," WTW said. "In short, almost half of the total amount raised in Q1 was raised in the ...

Darwinian time for super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
With COVID-19 rapidly shifting the ground beneath them, only the fittest superannuation funds will survive, according to Hostplus' Paul Watson. Appearing as part of a virtual panel discussing mergers in super, Hostplus group executive member experience ...