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Chief economist update: COVID-19 solves overtourism in Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... Belgium (imported), one case in Finland (imported), one case in Sweden (imported). Six deaths have been reported in Italy; one death has been reported in France." This doesn't include the latest cases reported in Switzerland and Croatia. This would ...

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... John Maynard Keynes, "in the long run we're all dead". That, of course, is if COVID-19 endures and permanently wreaks death and/or destruction of economic activity. But nah, like all others before it, a cure will be found and when we look back at ...

China vaccinates against corona

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... has rebounded by 10.7% from the one-year low of 2746.61 points recorded on February 3 (following reports that the COVID-19 death toll has overtaken SARS), taking its 2020 year-to-date loss from a steep 10.0% (on the third of Feb) to a mere 0.3% three ...

The sick short: Banking big on the coronavirus

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
With the coronavirus, now dubbed COVID-19, impacting not only many lives, but now also the bottom line of some of the world's biggest companies, investors are chasing shorting opportunities to bank big on the pandemic. According to the World Health ...

Industry fund bumps up premiums

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... industry superannuation fund are set to pay higher insurance premiums from April 1, with some paying up to 20% more for death and TPD. VicSuper has notified members their insurance premiums are increasing as a result of the Protecting Your Super and ...

Coronavirus to infect Q2: Capital Group

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... cases of the coronavirus, with 1491 deaths globally. According to this data, the coronavirus has now well surpassed the death toll of the 2002-3 SARS epidemic. Green said the real impact of the virus on the Chinese and global economy remains up in the ...

HESTA hikes default insurance cover

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... upon signing up unless they make a choice -- includes two units of the income protection (IP) to age 67 and two units of death cover to age 75. It does not include total permanent disability cover (TPD). Effective April, the cost of IP will go up, while ...

AMP faces fresh class action

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
... about their personal insurances." The class action is open to anyone who obtained an AMP Flexible Lifetime Policy (including death, TPD, trauma, income protection and business protection insurance) from 2013 onwards from AMP Financial Planning, Charter ...

Surplus may not be as advertised: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... care spending after the revelations from the Royal Commission into aged care. She also argued that we could be seeing "the death of The Phillips Curve" with predictions of 3% to 3.5% wage growth recently revised lower. The Phillips Curve states that ...

Chief economist update:China prepares anti-viral injection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
"Fear of death is worse than death itself..." - Gosho Aoyama The rate of infection from the coronavirus continues to multiply and, along with it, the sense of panic that has resulted in an almost worldwide ban on travel to and from China, complete lockdown ...