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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 ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone good news to get worse before it gets better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
Recent indications - slowing rate of infections and deaths -- that the Eurozone has passed the peak of its coronavirus pandemic - has member nations either planning to or have already gently eased lockdown and social distancing restrictions, among them ...

Chief economist update: Approaching peak isolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
Has the world reached peak isolation? The growing clamour to ease/end social restrictions and lockdowns indicates that "inmates" are growing restless. Humans, after all, are social animals. There's only so much online interaction - Facebook, Whatsapp ...

COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Nothing focuses the mind as the choice between life and death. This choice has been thrust onto Planet Earth's population by the coronavirus pandemic. So much so, that men, women and children of the world are giving up - willingly or grudgingly ...

Markets react as antiviral drug disappoints

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
News that a highly anticipated antiviral drug hoped to treat COVID-19 had flopped in human trials saw markets fall overnight. Originally reported by the Financial Times, the publisher said Gilead Sciences antiviral drug remdesivir did not reduce the ...

Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... with the sixth highest number of infected cases on the planet - 138,078 (as at April 23) - and the fifth in terms of the death count - 18,738 - suggesting that lockdowns and social restrictions would have to remain in place for longer. The impact on ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
Back in pre-coronavirus days, the thought that the Chinese economy would slow below the government's target of around 6.0% was enough to send chills down the spine of many investors and businesses. If memory serves me right, there were even forecasts ...