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GDP figures reveal start of COVID-19 impact

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... Bruce Hockman said this was the slowest through-the-year growth since September 2009, in the midst of the Global Financial Crisis. "[The data] captures just the beginning of the expected economic effects of COVID-19," Hockman said. The ABS said the economy ...

Westpac hunts new insto bank chief

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... period of intense global competitive pressures and structural changes across these markets following the global financial crisis," King said. "Under Lyn's leadership the Westpac Institutional Bank team has worked tirelessly to meet the needs of the bank's ...

Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... consumer demand than to a lower profit share." This explains the "economic stagnation" experienced since the Global Financial Crisis, he said, with low wage growth holding back consumer demand and business investment. He suggests three policy solutions ...

Equities attractive in search for yield: Zenith

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... Australian equities has typically remained within a defined band of 5% to 7% p.a., with the exception of the Global Financial Crisis. "As observed during the GFC, dividend yields were artificially inflated by the fall in the price of the underlying index," ...

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... they were shocked in March at their portfolios' growth risk exposures," he said. "It happened during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and now we have had a repeat performance with the COVID-19 generated market turmoil in the first quarter of 2020." ...

Road to recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... change". "This is a shift from the 'two-speed economy' experienced after the last downturn, the Global Financial Crisis, and many organisations will have to transform and develop new ways of doing business," Loades said. AusTTA points to research ...

March ASX200 volatility worse than GFC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... Australian stock market showed greater intraday volatility in March than it did during the peaks of the Global Financial Crisis, according to new research from Allan Gray. Nine trading days in March showed volatility above 10% for S&P/ASX 200, with seven ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... settings helped equity markets rebound and economies to recover from the "Great Recession" wrought by the Global Financial Crisis of 2009. Easing - this time, of social distancing and lockdown restrictions (implemented or planned) - along with continued ...

Dividends take hit, but will recover

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... Australia's listed companies, but they are poised for a much quicker rebound than that seen during the Global Financial Crisis. That's according to $9.5 billion fund manager Ausbil, whose portfolio manager Michael Price said shareholders must prepare ...

MySuper bounces back

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... 12-month return of -3%. For context, the average rolling 12-month return for the MySuper index during the Global Financial Crisis got as low as -20%," he said. "The YTD MySuper index return to March end is -6%."