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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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...

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....

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...

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....

Funds management

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

Funds management

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

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