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A coronavirus-bitten cat bounce?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... Financial Times reports that European governments have started preparations to ease lockdown rules. In Australia, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) released a video saying: "Enough is enough. It is time to begin to end this lockdown now." Sure, sure... ...

Count Financial bolsters leadership team

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... Advisory Committee to the board of the Financial Ombudsman service, and also served as the governor and secretary of the Institute of Internal Auditors. Countplus sold its financial advisory business Count Financial to the Commonwealth Bank in 2011 for ...

Chief economist update: Different contagion, same fiscal policy divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... bug because, to quote Professor Nigel McMillan -- an Infectious Diseases and Immunology expert at the Menzies Health Institute in Queensland - "Viruses need a host and to pass on, so if you isolate then you deny the virus that opportunity." Where doubt ...

Industry bodies work to ease regulatory burdens

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... super. The Regulatory Burden Taskforce - comprised of the Financial Planning Association of Australia, SMSF Association, Institute of Public Accountants, Chartered Accountants and Certified Public Accountants - wants ASIC to offer regulatory relief so ...

Time to step up or face the music

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... together with ensuring that members' best interests are at the heart of the decision-making process." The Governance Institute of Australia chief executive Megan Motto said it is important for a company's response to be both proactive, yet considered. ...

Business unusual: COVID-19 threats facing real estate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... in auction clearance rates, he said, with the preliminary rate falling to 61.3% as of March 22. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Index of House Price Expectations fell to 6.6% in March, the largest monthly decline since February 2019, Peleg said. Peleg ...

Is it time to lean on the Future Fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... like the central bank lending to superannuation funds at zero interest rates using their assets as collateral. Grattan Institute program director Brendan Coates says the Future Fund does not support tapping into the Future Fund to pay for early release ...

Extended lockdown could spur worst recession on record: Grattan

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... could spur Australia's worst recession since the Second World War, if not the Great Depression, according to the Grattan Institute's Brendan Coates. In an op-ed for The Conversation, the Institute's household finances program director said while a three-month ...

Extraordinary stimulus provides wage subsidy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
Prime Minister Scott Morrison today announced $130 billion of spending over the next six months to support the livelihoods of Australians who lose their jobs and income as a result of COVID-19. The government anticipates as many as six million Australians ...

SMSFs in flashback to 2008

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... Terry Pinnell, chair of the Ethical Advisers' Co-op, wrote to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg last week to ask him to institute the same measures for SMSF pensioners that the Rudd Government introduced during the Global Financial Crisis. In 2008, the government ...