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Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... important point here is not to quibble too much about the central case - we all know the economic data will be as bad as anything since the Great Depression," he said. "At the same time markets have acknowledged that the prospect of the most severe downturn ...

Not the time to sell products

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... means to me and my health. "And so the first few weeks of this crisis we were very much focused on actually not doing anything with financial markets. If I'm brutally honest, we stopped selling. We stopped selling because we wanted to help financial ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... director of the research department at the IMF, said the pandemic has resulted in a collapse in activity that is unlike anything experienced in this lifetime. "This is a crisis like no other, and there is substantial uncertainty about its impact on people's ...

Will COVID-19 kill the balanced option?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... it's not, and it dramatically changes in the blink of an eye," Geffin said. "All of a sudden you can't sell an asset for anything other than a fire sale price during a liquidity crisis and others selling similar assets to you at fire sale prices cause ...

Sargon Capital to be liquidated

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... the secured creditor, may be able to receive a dividend from Sargon winding up. Unsecured creditors are unlikely to get anything back at the group level. While the extent of claims against Sargon Capital is well known by now (except a claim from Phil ...

Wall Street rally runs out of steam

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... the world, and its largest customer is the second largest economy, China, which is intimately linked to Australia. "So anything that impacts the US significantly will impact the Chinese economy, which will inevitably hurt us, in addition to our own economic ...

Super should shape up on unlisted valuations: WTW

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... owners manage the valuation process," Kelly said. "The bottom line is that any decision on valuations, including not doing anything, needs a governance overlay." Super fund fiduciaries face a quandary of maintaining a medium to long-term investment horizon ...

Time to step up or face the music

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... is over we will still have a climate crisis to tackle." And if the global effort to control the spread of COVID-19 is anything to go by, we clearly have the capability and capacity to face the climate crisis head on.

Could relief on advice compliance save consumers?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... instances the education process can run into financial advice and that's a line she must be conscious to never cross. "Anything we do right now to make it easier for people to get good advice quickly and inexpensively would be an absolute godsend," ...

No time to look back

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... Jason Teh, chief investment officer at Vertium Asset Management said the coronavirus outbreak is very different from anything we have seen in markets before. "The crash in 1987 was because the bubble popped. The markets were so high, inflation was rising ...