--- title: COVID-19 effect on Australian deals, funds and investors description: Some investors are selling all their assets at any price they can get, fuelled by the fear of economies going into lock down. image: https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/hubfs/CRB%20COVID-19/CRB%20blog%20images%202021/2%20Cropped.png --- [![Bluechip_Logo](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/325503/Bluechip%20Assets/Images/Bluechip_Logo.svg "Bluechip_Logo")](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/) ![Search-9](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/hubfs/BlueChip%20website/Bluechip%20Assets/Images/Search-9.svg "Search-9") ![Close Icon (3)-1](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/hubfs/Bluechip%20Assets/Images/Close%20Icon%20(3)-1.svg "Close Icon (3)-1") This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. ** ![Close Icon (3)](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/325503/Bluechip%20Assets/Images/Close%20Icon%20(3).svg "Close Icon (3)") ##### Knowledge Shared # Insights ##### All Articles ![](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/hubfs/BlueChip%20website/Bluechip%20Assets/Images/down-filled-triangular-arrow.png) - [Financial Services (168)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/financial-services) - [Public Relations (133)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/public-relations) - [Marketing (111)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/marketing) - [Social Media (101)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/social-media) - [Integrated Marketing (87)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/integrated-marketing) - [Reputation Management (79)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/reputation-management) - [Crisis Management (61)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/crisis-management) - [Growth (46)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/growth) - [Profile (41)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/profile) - [COVID-19 (40)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/covid-19) - [Protect (14)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/protect) - [BC Team (9)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/bc-team) - [Blog (7)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/blog) - [Leadership communication (6)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/leadership-communication) - [Cyber Security (3)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/cyber-security) - [Client In The News (2)](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/client-in-the-news) [Client In The News](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/topic/client-in-the-news) ### [Melos Sulicich shares SME success tips on Money News’ “Let’s Talk Business”](https://www.bluechipcommunication.com.au/blog/melos-sulicich-shares-sme-success-tips-on-money-news-lets-talk-business) Melos Sulicich, CEO of Bank of Sydney was interviewed by 2GB’s Money News "Let's Talk Business" segment with Scott Haywood. 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Western countries simply cannot adapt to these measures."   ### 1. Market Feedback Corporate advisory firms, legal practices and transaction teams are generally seeing a conservative reaction to deal flow. Execution risk and integration risk post-deal are seen as high in this climate, however, some are determined to see deals through and stepping up pressure on their advisers and counter-parties to do so.  Fund managers are facing time allocation challenges as they split their time and teams across functions, market responses, and team COVID-19 working arrangements. Some are now considering giving, or giving, marketing teams more responsibility over COVID-19 communication as their other work naturally has slowed. Some investors are selling all their assets at any price they can get, fuelled by the fear of economies going into lock down. Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) providers say they’re performing as expected and that market making has been maintained to accommodate increase in trading volumes. ### 2. Management Responses CEOs and leadership teams are responding to COVID-19 through localised people management measures and business continuity plans: - Most global firms are allowing local firms to adapt their global working from home (WFH) protocols, e.g. how correspondence occurs and which technology to use, when to shut offices, rotating teams etc - Some local and global firms have a new BAU in place, best described as ‘daily agile’ working. Bedding that down includes getting people settled into new working and communication arrangements, different workplace policies, keeping a much closer eye on market movements and offshore news, daily leadership meetings and comms etc - Others have a dedicated COVID-19 response team running risk reduction, monitoring, making decisions, communicating and troubleshooting. ### 3. CEO guidance regarding COVID-19 responses  1. **Revise your current response: plan escalation now. **If you haven’t planned beyond today’s “possible or known COVID-19 contact” now is the time, and to include far more difficult levels (confirmed cases and deaths) 2. **Avoid blanket** **emails to investors, clients and stakeholders: **These fraught moments require sincerity, time and effort spent in consistent and continuous communication 3. **Continue to refine workplace arrangements:** Prepare people on the front line, ensure anyone with day to day external contact with third parties has access to protection and good information, and allocate budget to equip your team with the most up to date technology hardware and software to effectively WFH ### 4. Commentary I’ll end with commentary from the international networking firm I quoted at the top.  *“Your clients are going to be consumed with keeping their own businesses alive. But maybe you **can help them think of things which will help their communities**. And communicate them! Not just to make your clients look good (although it will), but also so others can copy.”*  ### 5. 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