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Unemployment already over 15%: Roy Morgan

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
April unemployment data released by Roy Morgan today paints a far gloomier picture of Australia's workforce than the Australian Bureau of Statistics' latest data from March. Roy Morgan found 15.3% of the workforce (2.16 million people) were unemployed ...

AMP hangs on to AFLPA mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
AMP will continue to manage superannuation for over 3500 past and present AFL players as the association extends its mandate. AFL Players' Association (AFLPA) has extended its 20-year-long relationship with AMP after a review following which the association ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
"Flattening the curve". This is the overriding aim of governments and health officials everywhere when they implemented or advise social isolation, social distancing limits and lockdown measures. Many have (or are beginning to) flattened their respective ...

Charter Hall kicks off $115m raise

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
Australia's largest ASX-listed real estate investment trust has kicked off a $115 million equity raising to weather the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Charter Hall Social Infrastructure (ASX: CQE) will undertake a fully underwritten institutional ...

Top adviser queries revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Colonial First State's superannuation team has revealed the burning questions financial advisers are asking at the moment, with the team frequently fielding queries on early access to super and new social security measures. The queries included ...

Chief economist update: No cheers as RBA hits inflation target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Mission accomplished! This would have been the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) self-congratulatory exclamation after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that annual headline CPI inflation accelerated to 2.2% in the March quarter ...

Media Super GM joins retail fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
A member of the Media Super leadership team is set to take on a new role with a retail super fund. Jennifer McSpadden has been appointed executive manager, member proposition and innovation at Suncorp Super. Currently general manager, engagement at ...

Aussie ETF investors got oil bets wrong before crash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Australians last week poured $35 million in the country's only ETF tracking crude oil futures, and were stung hard when WTI May contracts slipped into negative territory in Monday's trading. BetaShares Crude Oil Index ETF (OOO) tracks an index ...

SMSFs granted annual return extension

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
SMSFs have been granted an extension to the lodgement of annual returns to the ATO to June. The ATO said it made the decision in the wake of the financial effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. "The requirement for an SMSF to appoint an auditor 45 days before ...

Chief economist update: Thank goodness for Sorbent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
They were loathed, yelled at, vilified and even arrested - but the hordes of panic-buyers and toilet paper hoarders that invaded supermarkets, hardware stores, bottle shops, and businesses selling "work from home" wares may have collectively limited ...