COVID-19

Life/Risk

Life insurers have responded to a call to arms from Synchron to demonstrate how they are protecting customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

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Financial planning

La Trobe Financial has announced $1.25 billion residential mortgage-backed security raising, which it says is going to be one of the largest securitisation globally since...

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Financial planning

Grandfathered commissions have impacted the value of financial planning practices by as much as 25% of recurring revenue, while COVID-19 has impacted around 5% to 20%, ac...

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Funds management

Macquarie Group has posted a net profit after tax of $1.27 billion for the second half of the year, down 13%, due to economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic....

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Financial planning

In the absence of sufficiently attractive offers and in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic disruption, AMP has decided not to divest its New Zealand wealth management busi...

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Funds management

According to Western Asset’s base case scenario outlook, investors should expect longer, U-shaped global economic recovery....

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Funds management

Most sustainable bond funds have been able to weather the market volatility caused by the COVID-19 pandemic better than their non-sustainable counterparts, according to d...

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Policy & Regulation

There has been an upsurge in retail investors seeking to time the market in pursuit of quick profits and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned t...

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Funds management

The Platinum International fund has begun “carefully” increasing its exposure to the beaten-up travel sector....

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Superannuation

During the first week of the early super release payments scheme trustees paid members $1.3 billion, according to data....

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Superannuation

An estimated 855,000 early release of superannuation payments have been made totalling $7.1 billion by 30 April, according to an industry body....

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Features

Mike Taylor writes that timing is everything and that while Westpac and ANZ have largely cleared their books of their wealth management businesses, the Commonwealth Bank ...

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Features

The increase in home and remote working in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to be a benefit to women in the workplace if the policies are implemented long-ter...

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Expert Analysis

Winston Churchill proclaimed ‘never waste a good crisis’ and the COVID-19 pandemic has provided an unprecedented opportunity for the industry to test this theory, writes ...

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Expert Analysis

As people move to working from home for the foreseeable future, Glenn Baird discusses how you can best look after your wellbeing and that of your staff....

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