Listen to Money Cafe: Recession and financial advice

This week’s Money Cafe is about how recession brings a new wave of retail investors and why fewer financial advisers should mean better advice.

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Here’s this week’s Money Cafe, with Wealth editor James Kirby and InvestSMART’s Alan Kohler.

They discuss how recession brings a new wave of retail investors and why fewer financial advisers should mean better advice.

Listen to the podcast for the details:

• The one-day market sell off – in the thrawl of the number of coronavirus cases in the US
• With new retail investors coming into the market – does it make the market more or less fragile?
• ETFs on the rise – percentage of ETF turnover on the ASX goes from 4pc to 10pc
• Virgin bondholders come into play
• Qantas job cuts – why wasn’t JobKeeper able to save them?
• The risk-reward ratio of bonds
• The shrinking workforce of financial advisers
• Is the US Fed propping up the market?
• Ethical investing

Don’t forget to send your own questions to James Kirby and Alan Kohler via [e-mail]

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