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Major industry events cancelled amid pandemic

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
The Conference of Major Superannuation Funds has been cancelled or postponed along with a number of the financial services sectors big events, including charity fundraiser FICAP. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees has cancelled the ...

Alternatives to lead the way: J.P. Morgan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... hit to the stock market," Khazzam said. "They are also feeling there has been a flight to quality, in terms of investing in safe haven assets, and that is global bonds." What the data shows is the correlations between a lot of the alternative asset classes ...

Why Vanguard won't do gold ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... the manager stays away from niche sectors like robotics or even ASX subsectors like financials. However, gold, given its safe harbour status and recent inflows (ETFS Physical Gold had $1.2 billion in assets as at January end, while Perth Mint Gold had ...

Virus fallout worse than GFC: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... and the disease will continue spreading across more countries. "The first priority is clearly to keep people as healthy and safe as possible. Countries can help by spending more to boost their health systems, including on personal protective equipment ...

Advice important for family conscious: Perpetual

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Only 15% of Australians who say they care about their family the most have an active relationship with their financial adviser, according to a study by Perpetual. Based on the research, Perpetual said it is clear that family is a priority for many Australians ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... retirees around the world," Douglass said. "Many retirees want to have a portion of their money in term deposits and very, very safe government instruments, but in a world where you can't get any interest or your money's going to decrease in ...

Chief economist update: Coronaphobia sickens Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... maintained in both the corporate and household sectors..." The on-going global slowing, and exacerbated by the yen's safe-haven strength, compounds the hit on the Japanese economy, practically ensuring another recession, with economists predicting ...

JP Morgan's coronavirus contingency plan

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
Global investing powerhouse JP Morgan has started testing out its coronavirus contingency plan, in case the virus develops into a global pandemic. Thousands of the bank's US employees have been asked to spend a day working from home in the coming ...

Chief economist update: Welcome to the day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
The day you, I and Irene lost sleep over contemplating the potency of future central bank policy actions, given their sharply reduced firepower, when the next threat to the global economy comes. The coronavirus outbreak has brought that day upon us. ...

Allianz Retire+ moves to increase retiree confidence

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... a goals-based advice technology outfit to offer advisers more certainty when building retiree portfolios with its Future Safe investment product. Allianz Retire+ has partnered with Investfit to create a portfolio construction tool which demonstrated ...