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This is an opportune time to ensure any issues are addressed to help protect your SMSF and balances from significant impacts from the current environment.

While inflation has fallen, unemployment has risen and some businesses have shut, it's not all bad for Australians. Read about what happens in a recession here.

In the space of just a few months, COVID-19 has very quickly become both a medical and economic issue. Its global impact is only paralleled by the two world wars and the great depression in the 1930s.

Over the month of February, we saw the Coronavirus (COVID-19) threaten to derail the revival in global economic growth which began in the latter part of 2019.

Markets have experienced significant volatility this past week as investors try to assess the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

The Coronavirus outbreak has sent ripples through financial markets; disrupting world-wide trade, and forcing businesses to make decisions around employee well-being.

Diversification can lead to a reduction in the overall level of risk or volatility associated with your investment portfolio.

Emerging economies are a fairly disparate group, with many barely recognisable to compared to the asset class that existed in the 1990s and even 2000s.

Taking a broader approach to capital allocation, may enable you to earn income, manage risk and take advantage of rising valuations.