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FPA advocates for reduced pension minimums

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... the government to mirror the decision of the Rudd Labor government as it dealt with the fallout of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 to reduce the minimum annual payment amount for superannuation income streams. De Gori pointed out the government's ...

Banks defer small business loan repayments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... chief executive Matt Comyn vowed to "do everything that we can" to keep businesses open and people employed during the crisis. Comyn said this is a "very difficult" period for the economy for stressed the bank is in very good financial health and is ...

Chief economist update: Cash splash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... should help limit business closures, unemployment, debt defaults and all other nasty consequences of this on-going global crisis.

Buy now but can they pay later?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... cost machine. Their biggest customers are the biggest risk. "The casual workers and young people will get hurt by this crisis and will just stop spending, plus the bad debts could blow right out." Afterpay's market peers Zip Pay and SplitIt are also ...

JP Morgan commits $86m to COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... approaches 600. JP Morgan will initially commit US$15 million to support small businesses and those immediately affected by the crisis. Of this US$15 million, US$5 million will help to provide healthcare, food and other humanitarian relief around the ...

Chief economist update: Water, water everywhere and not a fish to catch

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... can't travel... and nothing to buy! But just as the world overcame other crises in the past - GFC, Asian financial crisis, Japan's deflation in the early 1990s, the 1987 crash, stagflation in the 70s and, of course, the Great Depression of the ...

Best, worst equities performers in COVID-19 sell-off revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... insights show the fortunes of the 2019 equities rally laggards have changed, having so far come out on top during the COVID-19 crisis. Asia and emerging market strategies have topped their diversified global equities counterparts amid the dramatic market ...

Coronavirus is an investment opportunity: Fidelity

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... Taylor has seen quite a few crises in his time. "In my 23 years at Fidelity we've had eight different crises; the Asian crisis, the Russian crisis, tech boom and bust, subprime mortgage crisis, sovereign debt crisis, SARS, and I think all are similar ...

ScoMo launches $17b stimulus package

ALLY SELBY, ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... to the global coronavirus challenge but we have already taken steps to prepare for this looming international economic crisis," Morrison said. "Our targeted stimulus package will focus on keeping Australians in jobs and keeping businesses in business ...

Stopping SG is nuclear response to COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... contributions in economically tough times has some merit - and some precedence. In 1998 in response to the Asian Financial Crisis the Singapore government did just that. "In Singapore, compulsory contributions into their Central Provident Fund (CPF) ...