Joanna Mather

Sydney

Deputy News Director at Australian Financial Review

Deputy news director, AFR

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Six things for investors to do right now (and one to avoid)

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Joanna Mather

Apr 7, 2025 – 7.30pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Australian sharemarket experienced its largest one-day loss in five years on Monday and more turbulence is on its way. Retail investors, superannuation savers and retirees are understandably jittery, so we asked financial planners for advice about what to do.
This retiree expects a market ‘bloodbath’. Here’s what will help

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Joanna Mather

Apr 6, 2025 – 4.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Jo White, 64, refuses to look at her superannuation balance given what’s happened in financial markets over the past few days. “I have no intention of looking at it in the short to medium term because I know I will be deflated,” she says. And she knows things are about to get worse.
Passive investors are smashing active ones - except in one key area

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Andrew Hobbs |Joanna Mather

Apr 4, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The case for passive investing – buying assets that track an index and do not try to pick winners or losers – just got made again with new data from S&P Global showing another year of underperformance for actively managed funds in almost all investments from stocks to real estate. But it wasn’t a total victory.
‘Superhuman’: Sea World staff slept at work to keep dolphins safe

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Joanna Mather |James Hall

As the Gold Coast braced for its first tropical cyclone in 50 years, staff at Sea World were preparing for the worst. The park has a population of more than 20 dolphins who are dependent on finely calibrated filtration systems for survival. Too much rain can disrupt the salinity levels, with potentially deadly consequences. CONTINUE READING
‘Superhuman’: Sea World staff slept at work to keep dolphins safe

1 month ago | afr.com | Joanna Mather |James Hall

Mar 12, 2025 – 4.50pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? As the Gold Coast braced for its first tropical cyclone in 50 years, staff at Sea World were preparing for the worst. The park has a population of more than 20 dolphins who are dependent on finely calibrated filtration systems for survival.
Mayor marshalls ‘ute army’ to clean up Brisbane

1 month ago | afr.com | Joanna Mather |James Hall

Mar 10, 2025 – 7.25pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Major developers say the effects of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred will worsen workforce shortages and productivity problems that mean every project in south-east Queensland already costs 20 per cent more than it should.
‘Biggest loss’ of power in a decade, flooding a major risk

1 month ago | afr.com | Joanna Mather

Mar 8, 2025 – 9.26am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Flash flooding poses a major threat to South East Queensland and Northern NSW, where a quarter of a million homes are without power as Cyclone Alfred continues to cause intense rainfall and damaging winds.
Gold Coast billionaires hunker down

1 month ago | afr.com | Joanna Mather

Mar 7, 2025 – 4.04pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Gold Coast property developer and philanthropist Soheil Abedian has been watching monster waves pummel Mermaid Beach from his penthouse at 272 Hedges Avenue. “It’s scary,” he says of the huge surf, driving rain and howling winds whipped up by Cyclone Alfred.
This Cairns yachtie thought his boat would be safe in Brisbane

1 month ago | afr.com | Tess Bennett |Joanna Mather

Mar 6, 2025 – 5.38pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Cairns firefighter Tom Neville had planned for his yacht, Postremo, to ride out the cyclone season by mooring it at Manly marina in Brisbane. The 12-metre yacht would be so far south, he reasoned, that it would be out of harm’s way for a few months. He brought it down and went back home. Loading...
Six big risks to your retirement savings and how to overcome them

1 month ago | afr.com | Joanna Mather

Feb 28, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The fear of running out of money – known as longevity risk – or experiencing a market crash in the first few years of retirement – sequencing risk – are persistent anxieties among would-be retirees. But there are other, less obvious risks, too. Take, for example, the growing incidence of grey divorce.