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Pandemic response concerns overblown

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... a better time for governments to borrow. Even with the government spending twice the amount than it did in response to the GFC, Richardson points out interest rates are just a fifth of what Australia was forced to back then, leaving the country with ...

Could relief on advice compliance save consumers?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... her company wanting to establish an SMSF in the last month than in the last three months of 2019. "This happened during the GFC as well. People are anxious about market falls and they crave the control that an SMSF could give them so they dive out of ...

Business unusual: COVID-19 threats facing real estate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... without accessing the property." Despite this, Kellenberger is positive that "things can turn out much better" than during the GFC. "This time around we are dealing with a much healthier banking system; we are dealing with a credit market situation that ...

Fixed income liquidity squeeze bites

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... though there isn't a solution to fix the discounts. "Fixed income ETFs are relatively new and weren't around during the GFC or the credit crisis in 2011 when credit and mortgage funds froze. ETFs are more transparent [and still provide liquidity ...

Return of the king

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... to always be positioned for the uncertainty that might lie ahead." Doyle said this lesson has been learnt before, after the GFC, when objective based portfolios came about. But, 10 years on, after a record winning bull market, some of those lessons had ...

Opportunities and threats amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... Global Financial Crisis, Potter said. "The banks themselves have more than twice as much capital as they had going into the GFC and less exposure to property and more exposure to mortgages, so they should get through without raising more capital," he ...

Chief economist update: AUD depreciation no cure for coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... recession in 2001 following the September 11 attacks of the same year; and, it dropped from US$0.91 to US$0.62 at the onset of the GFC in 2007- when most major economies went into a Great Recession. The coronavirus crisis has so far taken the A$/US$ ...

Market recovery or dead cat bounce?

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... I were to guess I'd say there's more downside ahead," he said. "For example, the ASX fell approximately 50% in the GFC, and we didn't even experience a recession back then. "Today, we're facing one of the most dire economic environments ...

Hume calls for diversity in super fund mergers

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... and added she would be interested to discover how many boards and risk committees ran scenario planning for a pandemic. "The GFC was not so long ago - did our collective failure of imagination blinker us to the learnings of other countries in times of ...

Chief economist update: A whole new world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... Keynesian economics that posits increased government spending during recessions to raise aggregate demand. This worked during the GFC, but it appears, not this time. Most governments all over the world are underwriting rents, mortgages, business costs ...