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Public super fund rejigs offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation. The fund does not have insurance. Serving defence personnel use ADF's automatic cover for death and invalidity benefits. Starting July 6, the fund will allow veterans who are discharged from the defence force ...

Chief economist update: The power of money (and a cure)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... coronavirus cure. As Factset notes: "BBC reported that UK experts said the low-dose of steroid treatment cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators and by 1/5th of those on oxygen. The Recovery Trial was led by a team from Oxford University ...

Government urged to extend stimulus

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
The OECD has urged the Australian government to extend stimulus measures and warned that a second wave of infections could derail our economy. In its latest economic outlook report pointed out that while economic activity collapsed in the second quarter ...

Let's not waste the crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... and truly in the spotlight - and will likely remain so over the months and years to come. And although the crisis has left death and destruction in its wake - so too has it exposed the collective capabilities of the global economy, the benefits of clear ...

Chief economist update: Hong Kong is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic was both a curse and a blessing (for lack of a better word) for China's Politburo. Social restrictions and lockdowns imposed by the powers-that-be to contain the virus sent the economy plunging 6.8% in the year to the March ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Forget Australia's simmering political and trade tension with China, there's one building right inside our very borders. Canberra's worried that Beijing's ban on beef imports, increased tariff on barley could extend to boycott of Australia's ...

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
... today's world, FOMO (fear of missing out). This optimism is underscored by the flattening of the coronavirus infection/death rate curve in many countries and their respective governments' decision to gently ease lockdown restrictions, effectively ...

Frontline worker death nominations spike

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... Catholic Super and Equipsuper has shared new data revealing a sharp increase in enquiries on life insurance and updates to death nominations for essential workers. Scott Cameron said the five offerings over which he serves as trustee - Catholic Super ...

Industry fund swaps insurers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... Energy Super has chosen OnePath after a rigorous tender process, the fund told members, while notifying them of changes to death and TPD cover. The change builds from September last year when Energy Super transitioned its income protection from MLC to ...