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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 ...

Compliance worse than COVID-19

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... reduce or remove red tape. "Whilst COVID-19 is having a huge impact on financial advice clients and their adviser, we can all hope that the impact of COVID-19 will only last for a limited period." The cost of compliance will continue to significantly ...

The blame game

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
When the COVID-19 crash hit markets, super funds copped a massive blow, but why they were all invested in such a similar way is an issue that still needs addressing. The superannuation industry had been under increasing pressure to perform, at the very ...

Boutique launches new Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... many of them specialise in small caps. However, several of these are already at capacity and are closed to new investors. We hope to be able to provide a new alternative." The fund is priced at 0.75% in management fees plus a 15% performance fee on above ...

Chief economist update: Thank goodness for Sorbent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
They were loathed, yelled at, vilified and even arrested - but the hordes of panic-buyers and toilet paper hoarders that invaded supermarkets, hardware stores, bottle shops, and businesses selling "work from home" wares may have collectively limited ...

Regal Atlantic fund down 58.6%

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... has risen 20.2%. "While two weeks of performance certainly doesn't provide any guide to future expected returns, we do hope investors can take some comfort that our returns in April have started to rebound, as indicated by the MTD performance as ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... Recession of 2008/09 and the Asian financial crisis a decade earlier. China's slow early return to business as usual offers hope that Australia may be able to again skip a recession... but only just.

Chief economist update: Surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
If this is as bad as it gets, give me coronavirus everyday (well, hope not). The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) reported that employment increased (yes, it's up) by 5900 in March and the unemployment rate ticked up by an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie ...

COVID-19 could end Centrelink stigma

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... themselves reliant on government assistance during a time of personal crisis or vulnerability," Johns told Financial Standard. "I hope people will be more empathetic now and demand better, more dignified treatment of those seeking our societal support." ...

Not the time to sell products

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
While the arrival of the COVID-19 crisis may have come as a prime product selling opportunity for some, Allianz Retire+ chief executive Matt Rady is adamant that the more appropriate behaviour is to support advisers. Speaking to Financial Standard ...