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ASIC takes action on two AFSLs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... Squareknot's licence cancellation took effect on 6 May 2020. ASIC said the licence was cancelled after it found that Squareknot did not meet the base level financial requirements of its licence. "Under the Corporations Act, an AFS licensee must comply ...

Super release widens gender gap: AMP

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
The government's early release scheme is widening the gender superannuation gap, as a higher proportion of women draw down on their super savings to weather the COVID-19 crisis. The analysis, coming out of AMP, found that 21% of women were withdrawing ...

Chief economist update: Better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
" You're simply the best Better than all the rest Better than anyone Anyone I've ever met..." A great many, if not all Australians, would have had this Tina Turner classic playing in their heads listening to Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor ...

FICAP sponsors donate $150k despite postponement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... sponsorship fees to FICAP's three charity partners, despite the singing competition - which was slated for March 26 - not going ahead. The three charities to benefit from the industry's generosity are SHINE for Kids, which supports children and ...

Let's not waste the crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... implications of the pandemic hitting poorer, vulnerable workers harder than most. "It was initially surmised that COVID-19 did not discriminate based on socio-economic factors," she said. "However, what has become clear is that it is people in lower ...

SMSFs to weather the storm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... on the amount. Franco Morelli, policy manager at the SMSFA, said the taxation office has made it abundantly clear that will not be tolerated. "Anyone who applies for the ERS scheme needs to have been effected by COVID-19. So, if you're taking money out ...

Is the worst yet to come?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... government bonds and asset backed securities in the mortgage market, but there has been this step up into credit markets. "It's not a big step from there into equity markets and that I think is clearly distorting, indirectly and directly, the sort of ...

APRA quashes super liquidity concerns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
APRA has put to bed any rumour that superannuation funds are at risk of facing liquidity issues as a result of the government's decision to allow Australians early access to their superannuation. Appearing alongside ASIC before the Senate Select Committee ...

Collapse of REITs spells opportunity: SG Hiscock

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... and assigning lower multiples for other income sources." The global shut down disproportionately impacted REITs, he said, not through misbehaviour of gearing up, owning poor assets or embarking on other non-core activities - but through the impacts of ...

COVID-19 poses unique human rights threats

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... In a new paper Robeco head of sustainability integration Masja Zandbergen expressed the belief that if digital rights are not protected by good regulatory frameworks COVID-19 could not only see human rights eroded but nations could see worse health outcomes. ...