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Life insurers have responded to a call to arms from Synchron to demonstrate how they are protecting customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Funds management
According to Western Asset’s base case scenario outlook, investors should expect longer, U-shaped global economic recovery....
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...
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...
Funds management
The Platinum International fund has begun “carefully” increasing its exposure to the beaten-up travel sector....
Superannuation
During the first week of the early super release payments scheme trustees paid members $1.3 billion, according to data....
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....
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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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Podcast
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...