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March ASX200 volatility worse than GFC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... "Sharemarkets are the most volatile they've been in the past 20 years. Increased uncertainty, fear, forced and panic selling, as well as reduced liquidity, are all contributing factors and all measures show a recent spike in, and currently elevated ...

ASIC secures $160m in remediation over junk credit insurance

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... junk insurance." The sales practices of this product were systematic and unjust, she said. "There is nothing fair about selling on-going consumer credit insurance to a 65-year-old when eligibility falls away at 66," Chester said. "There is nothing fair ...

Retirees hurt by APRA dividend pressure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... don't suffer the full cost of the dividend payment." Middleton said this compares pretty poorly with the alternative of selling shares in a depressed market to get enough cash for living expenses. "Rights issues do reduce share price growth in the future ...

How early release impacts the ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... compared to April last year. Tribeca Investment Partners portfolio manager Jun Bei Liu believes super funds added to the selling pressure in March, raising their cash levels prior to the commencement of the government's early release scheme. "Since the ...

ASIC issues stark warning to retail investors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... retail numbers)," ASIC said. "Retail brokers were net buyers of securities over the focus period, buying $53.4 billion and selling $48.4 billion." The regulator is particularly concerned about new or dormant buyers suddenly jumping into the market at ...

Super switching three times higher: CFS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... "The switching activity we have seen is directly linked to how the Australian market is performing on the day. "However, selling after markets have fallen means that you lock in those losses and longer term investment outcomes may be more difficult to ...

Is it really as bad as it seems?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... had with clients, most people want to know about timing and when to put their money to work in the market as opposed to selling their exposure," he said. "I think that talks to Australia's advice model, and in particular the strong role that having ...

Madison sale slated for May completion

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... liquidation. OVH had four avenues of recovering its $31 million from Sargon and associated companies: it realised $4.4 million by selling Sargon's sale in Sequoia Financial Group; is currently in 100% ownership of Madison; is waiting to recover some ...

Pandemic puts pressure on ETF spreads

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... investors realised that they could use the ETF market in a much more varied way than they may have thought - for buying, selling, hedging and tactically trading, whatever they wanted to do, in a variety of asset classes," Chugh said. "Activity in February ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... Mathew De Corrado told Financial Standard. "In the dramatic decline, we saw a large number of investors rush to exit, selling both Crypto and their ETF holdings (with a small amount of investors opting to remain invested). "A large number of investors ...