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Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... freezing (of economic activity) wrought by coronaphobia is shaking what has become an orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe. Grexit, the Jasmine Revolution, North Korea's missile launches ...

ANZ wealth exit sees hundreds of jobs go

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... broader economy is self-serving and short sighted." She added that Australia "backed the banks" through the global financial crisis and that ANZ should be mindful of its broader responsibility to the community. "ANZ actions this week will simply confirm ...

Chief economist update: The C word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... a long, long way towards restoring consumer, business and investor confidence, as they have during the global financial crisis and "Great Recession" of a decade past. The sharp rebound in equity markets everywhere proves this.

Factor investing, sustainability a perfect match

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... control to asset owners on how their portfolio behaves and what it looks like," Lansdorp said. "After the Global Financial Crisis, investors became rather disappointed about returns, and they were asking critical questions, especially of active managers ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus has gone viral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... and 2010 (although this had been muddied by the substantial monetary and fiscal policy responses to the global financial crisis). During the SARS outbreak - where the coronavirus is now being compared to - global GDP grew by 4.5% between 2003 and 2004. ...

Chief economist update: Australians all let's not rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... and Grexit. Wait there's more. According to the consumer sentiment report: "Since the lows of the Global Financial Crisis where the Index averaged only 89 over a 15 month period from March 2008 to May 2009 there have only been seven monthly readings ...

Westpac appoints new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... successful turnaround program. Maxsted said McFarlane successfully helped Barclays return to profit after the Global Financial Crisis which had long-standing negative effects on the company. "During his four years as chairman, the company was streamlined ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... risk to a rebound is climate change. In 2019 the global economy experiences the weakest growth since the Global Financial Crisis, but the IMF is expected 2020 to deliver global gross domestic product growth of 3.3%. The IMF published its expectations ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... to other business leaders, the newly "woke" Fink likened climate change to the dot-com bubble and the global financial crisis... but worse. "Climate change is different. Even if only a fraction of the projected impacts is realised, this is a much more ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... during which weak trade and investment dragged the world economy to its feeblest performance since the global financial crisis, economic growth is poised for a modest rebound this year," she said. "However, for even that modest uptick to occur, many ...