COVID-19
Financial planning
Bank dividends could be cut after the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority told them to ‘maintain caution’ over 2020 dividend payments with the payout ratio maintai...
Superannuation
The Federal Government should deliver superannuation funds a reduction in regulatory levies equal to the amount of money withdrawn from superannuation under the hardship ...
Superannuation
The Financial Services Council has lent its weight to the SMSF Association’s push to clear the way for self-managed funds to invest in infrastructure....
Funds management
Some 40% of global companies managed to increase or initiate a dividend during the second quarter of 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing many firms to cancel divi...
Superannuation
The total number of repeat applications for the Government’s super access hardship scheme has reached one million with an average payment of $8,619, according to data....
Editorial
As the Government seeks to pull the Australian economy out of recession it should silence those on its backbench who are undermining confidence in the superannuation regi...
Superannuation
Cutting red tape for financial advice will aid the economic recovery post-COVID-19 pandemic, says the SMSFA....
Features
While there have been critics of India’s handling of COVID-19, Fiducian Group’s executive chair, Indy Singh maintains the fundamentals are in place to make it an attracti...
Expert Analysis
The aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis paved the way for increased globalisation, writes Govinda Finn, but the COVID-19 border and trade restrictions mean this is l...
Financial planning
The Federal Government should use the creation of a single disciplinary body to create a single regulator and thereby reduce complexity and costs....
Superannuation
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has struck a positive outlook on Australia’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, saying a second wave could defer current growth paths but w...
Funds management
Gross domestic product growth in China hit 3.2% in the second quarter, making it the first country to return to growth following the COVID-19 pandemic and performing far ...
Financial planning
The legislative instrument that will grant three-month continuing professional development relief for advisers due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been formalised by FASEA....
Financial planning
A senior Australian Financial Complaints Authority ombudsman has acknowledged that financial advisers are doing it tough in a tricky environment and that the authority wi...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is facing tough questioning around how it has handled a number of issues amid the disruption of COVID-19....
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