CORONAVIRUS

Financial planning

The firm will also add three more franchise locations as its services are in high demand from investors trying to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic....

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Funds management

Consensus earnings and dividend expectations globally remain too high and will be subject to significant downgrades in coming weeks, according to Janus Henderson....

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Funds management

Bailouts are there to save jobs and businesses and the COVID-19 pandemic is a health and solvency crisis and shareholders have to pay their bit, Munro Partners believes....

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Policy & Regulation

Faced with the uncertainties of COVID-19 the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has suspended new licensing for banks, insurers and superannuation funds....

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Financial planning

The likelihood that businesses won’t restart and customers won’t be able to start paying down their mortgages have been factors in ratings house Fitch downgrading Westpac...

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Financial planning

Centrepoint board and executive members have voluntarily taken a 20% pay reduction and non-executive staff have been invited to salary sacrifice six weeks’ leave over six...

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Financial planning

Over 95% of businesses in the financial and insurance sectors remain operational during COVID-19, one of the highest rates in industry sectors, although more than half ha...

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Funds management

Insync Funds Management has retained its holding in Booking Holdings, which runs the booking.com website, despite a wider negative outlook for travel stocks as it expects...

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Financial planning

Business confidence has plunged day-by-day since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Australia and prompted the Government to increase social distancing restrictions....

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Financial planning

Re-opening stalled Significant Investor Visa applications could inject up to $100 million into ailing start-up firms....

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Funds management

The healthcare sector has outperformed the broad equity market during the COVID-19 crisis as investors reward companies with advanced research to address COVID-19, accord...

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Financial planning

The February sitting of the FASEA exam saw a pass rate of 82% and the June exam will not have a face-to-face sitting....

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Policy & Regulation

Tax agents and advisers have been warned against trying to manipulate the business and employment policy changes put in place by the Government to deal with COVID-19....

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Funds management

Liquidity in the Australian bond market has been extremely poor but there are some pockets of opportunity opening up, according to Janus Henderson....

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Funds management

The weakness in the Aussie dollar against major currencies presents an opportunity for investors to ‘lock in’ currency gains made by other international currencies they h...

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