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No golden ticket for super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
March provided evidence that superannuation funds won't be able to guild returns through investments in gold, according to Parametric. Parametric managing director of research Raewyn Williams said investments in gold failed to provide a safe haven from ...

VIC, TAS lead Australia: CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Victoria remains Australia's strongest performing economy, but it now shares top spot with Tasmania, according to the latest CommSec State of the States report. The latest CommSec economic rankings revealed how the state and territory economies were ...

Businesses urged to apply for JobKeeper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise ombudsman Kate Carnell is concerned that many small businesses may not be applying for the JobKeeper scheme. Carnell said there is a concern from many small business owners that they cannot afford ...

Pay cuts, dividend slashed as NAB raises capital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
The big bank has entered a trading halt as it looks to raise $3.5 billion to sustain the business throughout the COVID-19 downturn which has so far seen the interim dividend more than halved and the NAB leadership team take pay cuts. Releasing its 1H ...

Billions withdrawn from super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has confirmed $3.8 billion in withdrawals from super was approved by the ATO over the course of three days. Frydenberg said the average withdrawal was $8000 and the super funds will now begin to release the money. "Those applications ...

COVID-19 clogs custody mandate pipeline

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
Switching custodians is one of the tasks being put on the back burner as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts businesses and markets. The biggest custody businesses are experiencing delays in implementing new mandates, as volatility makes clients hesitant ...

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
Bad timing it may be but, it is what it is. The coronavirus pandemic struck just when the dark clouds of Brexit uncertainty lifted over the United Kingdom. For the best part of three years, Brexit was on every Brits mind - dampening business investment ...

Compliance worse than COVID-19

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Regulatory and compliance burden is a bigger challenge and disruption for financial advisers than COVID-19, the global pandemic that has ripped both economies and lives to shreds. In an interview with Financial Standard, Investment Trends research director ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Late last year, before extreme weather events battered the world, before COVID-19, The Big Short 's Michael Burry said he had found the next bubble: passive investments. Now, with asset prices trembling in the face of the pandemic, could there still ...

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 ...