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Financial services least trusted industry: Edelman

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... claw back eight points - perhaps reflecting the increased emphasis on ethics and regulation following the global financial crisis. Just 44% of people trusted financial services in 2012, compared to 77% trusting technology and 64% trusting food and beverage ...

Evergreen launches stress testing tool

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... adviser marketplace." The GreenVUE tool will allow advisers to run portfolios through re-simulations of the global financial crisis, the Euro-debt crisis, the US credit rating downgrade, oil shocks and US recession, rising global interest rates, trade ...

Chief economist update: Disappointing jobs results raise Biden's stimulus bid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... (er, celebrate), Joe Biden is here. Yes Virginia, we're back to that familiar refrain borne from the global financial crisis of a decade before - bad news is good news. This is because the weakness in the US labour market only strengthens Joe Biden's ...

Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... 2017 and 2019 and when then chair Janet Yellen announced the first rate hike (in December 2016) since the global financial crisis of 2009. As Yellen explained: "In standard economic models, inflation expectations are an important determinant of actual ...

ASIC takes action against La Trobe Financial

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020
... the event of a liquidity event. Financial Standard understands that no liquidity event, even though the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, ever occurred that required La Trobe to delay meeting redemptions. "We have never withheld a monthly ...

Australia in China's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... Chinese economy - they would have been lifting us up just as the Chinese economy's strength did during the global financial crisis of a decade earlier. And improve, China indicators continue to do. Latest data show the annual growth in Chinese retail ...

Chief economist update: China turns crisis into opportunity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... incorrect by Sinologists, this quotation attributed to John F. Kennedy regained prominence during the Global Financial Crisis. Lost in translation or not, it appears that China is once again turning the coronavirus crisis into an opportunity. Makes you ...

Chief economist update: Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... changers. In the meantime, Wall Street's back to the bad news is good news meme witnessed during the Global Financial Crisis. The bad-er economic news gets, the good-er would be policy responses from Capitol Hill and the Fed. Greed must really be ...

Spaceship delivers for millennials

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... the report, Rainmaker's MySuper index returned its first negative financial year return since the Global Financial Crisis of -0.90% at the end of FY20. The index registered 5.1% p.a. (three years), 5.5% p.a. (five years) and 7.5% p.a. (10 years). ...

Chief economist update: Australia's third arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... would have been in a recession (like many other countries including the US, Europe and Japan) during the global financial crisis had it not been for the double-digit growth in China (at the time) and its voracious appetite for our goods and services. ...