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COVID-19 brings trading boom

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... the nabtrade platform that are contrarian by nature and they have taken advantage of buying opportunities through this crisis. There's still large amounts of cash coming into the nabTrade platform, with much of it still to be put to work as investors ...

COVID-19 dampens retirement expectations: Study

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... superannuation education," Rady argued. The survey found that almost 80% of retirees did not seek financial advice during the crisis, with less than a third understanding the investment options available to them in superannuation. Almost two-thirds of ...

ATO cracks down on ERS misuse

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... unfortunate that some individuals have been taking advantage of the scheme meant to assist those in the current time of crisis. "Industry Super Australia has consistently supported this scheme's policy intent of providing help to members in need ...

Investment scams pry $126m from Aussie hands

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... been quick to adapt to local and global events. "The start of 2020 has seen an explosion of scams exploiting the bushfire crisis in Australia as well as the global COVID-19 pandemic," she said. "At a time when Australians can least afford to lose money ...

Unemployment hits 21-year high

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... over the past 12 months, from 31.7% to 29.7%. The figures show woman and young people have been the worst affected by the crisis, with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg labelling the figures as devastating. "Female employment fell by 118,000, making up 52% of ...

EM winners, losers emerge in COVID-19 struggle

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... country's transparency in fighting COVID-19 has been less-than-ideal," Cirami said. "The pandemic represents the first EM crisis in which many countries have tried to cut rates as stimulus - previously, such moves typically provoked investors to flee ...

VanEck makes case for equal weight investing

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... three separate periods of recovery - the period following the 2001 dotcom burst, the 2008 GFC and the 2015-16 Greek debt crisis. "The paper finds that during these recovery periods, equal weighting outperformed the benchmark market capitalisation index ...

Profound uncertainty remains: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... said. "Most tragically, this pandemic has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. The resulting economic crisis is unlike anything the world has seen before." Gopinath labelled the COVID-19 crisis as "truly global" saying even the GFC ...

Financial services demands more mental health support

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... Financial Standard investigated how the financial services sector was stepping up its approach to mental health during the crisis, with experts shedding light on how heavily the pandemic was impacting the sector's workers. In a separate piece, Financial ...

Pessimism strikes Australia, US optimistic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... steep losses to finish the year down just 3.6%. Despite seeing losses as high as -34% within the first few weeks of the crisis, financial professionals saw losses moderate to as little as -10% by the end of April. The survey showed that 51% of financial ...