CORONAVIRUS

Life/Risk

The Financial Services Council has issued an undertaking on behalf of the major life insurers covering the rights of frontline health and other workers in the face of COV...

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Features

Self-managed superannuation funds specialist, Meg Heffron, explains why the Government’s COVID-19 measures providing hardship early access to superannuation represent a s...

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Features

Working from home is one of the biggest shifts globally to have come as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While a financial adviser’s work is centred around physical fa...

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Expert Analysis

As Australia moves under lockdown, ASIC needs to ease the regulatory burden for advisers unable to meet face-to-face with clients, writes Shannon Bernasconi....

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Expert Analysis

We all need to keep our vigilance high during these extraordinary times, but perhaps nowhere is our attention more warranted than over money and data, writes Dean Martin....

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Expert Analysis

It is critical that people understand what happens in that often-unknown process of passing away and are prepared with a will, writes Anna Hacker....

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Funds management

There is likely to be a ‘lasting reduction’ in demand for travel firms and cruise companies even after the market recovers from COVID-19, according to Magellan....

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Funds management

The economic configurations and behaviours after the pandemic caused by COVID-19 will be very different from those that prevailed earlier, according to Janus Henderson....

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Financial planning

As COVID-19 continues, the founder of one of Australia’s largest credit card comparators has called for a freeze on credit card interest and repayments for six months....

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Superannuation

Anglican Super is accusing AMP Limited of being unreasonable because it has sought to suspend the fund’s successor fund transfer to Mercer citing COVID-19 market volatili...

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Financial planning

Mass testing and global Government guaranteed support would help recover economic turmoil caused by the pandemic within six months, according to deVere Group....

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Superannuation

Superannuation funds have received a letter from the two financial services regulators telling them to give top priority to having sufficient liquidity to make early rele...

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Funds management

AMP Capital predicts ASX200 dividends will be cut by a third over the next 12 months, a larger cut to dividends than during the global financial crisis....

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Funds management

Technology funds have experienced inflows every week in 2020 despite markets crashing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data....

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Funds management

There were four Australian equity funds that began experiencing losses before COVID-19 hit the market....

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