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Zurich pledges to COVID-19 support

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... wave of community impact funding to support Australian and New Zealand charities in the wake of COVID-19. The emergency financial support equates to an additional $1.43 million, which is being allocated to 20 different charities at the national and grassroots ...

UniSuper stares down job crisis

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... planning strategies and offering support through a number of channels including," the fund said. That support includes the financial advice team at the fund providing specific support related to redundancies. However, the fund has not seen an unexpected ...

Recruitment lifts as economy reopens

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
... crisis. "There is a consensus that companies need to recruit, and recruit fast," Kaizen director Matt McGilton told Financial Standard. "While the last three months has seen recruitment slow, there has been a backlog of work and employers are still looking ...

COVID-19 poses unique human rights threats

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... issue, Zandbergen said. Her colleague Robeco global consumer trends equities portfolio manager Jack Neele agrees. He told Financial Standard that it has become accepted that social media companies will remove or control what they perceive to be misinformation. ...

IOOF to provide fee relief to adviser network

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
IOOF has announced a new initiative that will see its network of financial advisers offer free financial guidance to local communities until the end of September. IOOF said it is providing fee relief to its advisers to volunteer 60 hours of their time ...

Time to buy residential property: Survey

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... with 63% indicating no change at all to their plans," Kingsley said. "Most investors also indicated that they had the financial buffers to see them through the current economic uncertainty. "The survey results definitively show optimism amongst investors ...

Equities attractive in search for yield: Zenith

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... Australian equities has typically remained within a defined band of 5% to 7% p.a., with the exception of the Global Financial Crisis. "As observed during the GFC, dividend yields were artificially inflated by the fall in the price of the underlying index," ...

Government offers guidance provision relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
Company directors will not be liable for missing financial guidance targets for the next six months, after the government temporarily amended continuous disclosure provisions to help firms through COVID-19. The amendments, introduced today, ensure companies ...

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... wonder they were shocked in March at their portfolios' growth risk exposures," he said. "It happened during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and now we have had a repeat performance with the COVID-19 generated market turmoil in the first quarter of ...

Banks urged to step up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... decade APRA had worked with banks to reduce liquidity risks, leaving Australian banks in a strong position to whether a financial crisis. However, he said those capital and liquidity buffers the big banks have built up in the good times should be used ...