COVID19

Superannuation

While recovery momentum helped bolster account balances in August, the second half of 2020 will be dependent on COVID-19 infection rates and the gradual easing of restric...

Financial planning

4% of planners intend to stop giving advice

Despite the shifting regulatory landscape and disruption from major players, only 4% of financial planners intend to stop providing advice in the year ahead, according to...

Funds management

Nucleus Wealth says 'remain cautious'

Wealth and superannuation manager, Nucleus Wealth, has said it will remain cautious, although it was helped by managing to de-risk portfolios before the markets went into...

Financial planning

SelfWealth revamps to capture increased trading activity

Smaller broking platforms are seeing increased interest as a result of above-average trading volumes prompted by COVID-19....

Features

A different ball game

Fixed income is known for its reliable defensive characters, Chris Dastoor writes, but is it still the best option during the COVID-19 economic recovery as equities rebou...

Superannuation

Predicted 2nd tranche early release surge become a reality

Superannuation fund executives have confirmed that the predicted second tranche early release superannuation surge has become a reality....

Financial planning

New report: COVID-19 opens opportunities for advisers

Financial advisers may emerge as one of the few winners from the COVID-19 pandemic but they will have to play their cards right, according to new research from KPMG....

Financial planning

Advised clients seeing increased financial reassurance

The benefits of receiving financial advice have been highlighted in a new report which found while over half of unadvised people worried about money daily or weekly, this...

Funds management

Pure relative value tops inflation linked bonds

Pure relative value investing wins out in the inflation linked bonds sector as strategies that avoid macro-economic effects offer better defensive protection during the C...

Superannuation

APRA predicts second tranche early release surge

Just over $18 billion has already been taken from superannuation accounts via the Government’s hardship early release superannuation scheme and the Australian Prudential ...