COVID-19 Pulse Check Survey – New Model Adviser

Demand for advice set to soar – but where are the advisers?

Just when it looks as if demand for financial advice could be set to escalate on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic, it increasingly looks as if that demand might […]

by Fumin Rianto — October 27, 2020 — 3 comments — Advice, APAC, Consumers/retail, Current events, Industry

The increasing importance of financial advice in a post-pandemic landscape

CoreData Research has published a new white paper, The Post-Pandemic Advice Landscape, analysing the seismic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Australian financial advice industry. The pandemic has changed […]

by CoreData Research — October 19, 2020 — 0 comments — Advice, APAC, Consumers/retail, Current events, Industry, Insights, Legislation, Practice, Profession

Why insurers face a perfect storm as Australians’ ‘surge capacity’ is tested

It started as a health crisis and quickly became an economic crisis. Now, six months on from the initial COVID-19 lockdown in Australia, we are arguably experiencing one of the […]

by Kristen Turnbull — September 25, 2020 — 1 comment — Advice, APAC, Consumers/retail, Insights, Risk

Is working from home really working?

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown financial advice practices’ traditional working habits a curveball, as we see a significant uptick in remote working for employees – and the same is happening […]

by Anthony Zhang — August 19, 2020 — 1 comment — Advice, APAC, Current events, Insights, Practice

How to recognise the new face of financial hardship

Almost three quarters of Australians now experiencing financial vulnerability or hardship were able to pay their bills with money to spare before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. CoreData’s latest COVID-19 Pulse […]

by Alison Sweet — August 18, 2020 — 0 comments — Advice, APAC, Insights

A financial cliff awaits Australia’s ‘pay later’ economy

The coronavirus crisis has added a new dimension to the buy now, pay later economy, with many Australians and business owners heading towards a financial cliff they can see but […]

by Kristen Turnbull — June 4, 2020 — 0 comments — APAC, Consumers/retail, Current events, Insights, Risk

East coast hit hardest hit by COVID-19, as WA and SA expect to rebound

While some Australians consider the worst of the public health crisis to be over, those in the hardest-hit states on the Eastern seaboard are more pessimistic about the economic recovery. […]

by Chris Murphy — May 28, 2020 — 0 comments — APAC, Consumers/retail, Current events, Insights

Financial advice supports positive mental health during COVID-19 pandemic

As the community’s focus shifts from protecting our health to kick-starting our economic recovery, new research has reinforced the role of financial advisers in supporting not only the financial resilience […]

by Jasmine Davies — May 28, 2020 — 0 comments — Advice, APAC, Consumers/retail, Current events

COVID-19 blow to gender employment parity doesn’t tell the whole story

Women are more likely than men to have lost their job due to COVID-19, but the pandemic could drive greater employment parity in the long-term, CoreData’s latest research has found. […]

by Alison Sweet — May 21, 2020 — 0 comments — APAC, Consumers/retail, Current events, Insights

Misperceptions about IP cover a red flag for life industry

Nearly half of consumers who currently have income protection insurance believe they would be covered in the event of job loss, new research from CoreData has found. The research, based […]