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Wall Street tumbles, ASX holds ground

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... market analyst at IG told Financial Standard we should refrain from thinking this is the case. "Volatility is currently at GFC highs, which is leading to exaggerated swings to the upside just as much as it is to the downside," Rodda said. "There is always ...

Coronavirus is an investment opportunity: Fidelity

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... want to be in blue chip, liquid stocks; liquidity is very important in these environments," he said. "Having gone through the GFC, you realize that liquidity is very important in bottoming markets, you want to make sure you are in a strong position." ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2020
... confidence - the index dropped by 3.8% to a reading of 91.9 in March - the lowest in five years and the second lowest since the GFC -- from 95.5 in the previous month. The survey was conducted in the week from March 2 to 6 March 2020. The RBA cut rates ...

Fee cuts hack at fund manager margins

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
Fee cuts are eating into fund managers' operating margins, sending them to post-GFC levels, according to new research from Deloitte unit Casey Quirk. Publically listed managers' operating margins tumbled an average of 5.2% annually over the ...

Active managers: Opportunities abound

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... investment in China and emerging markets in the fallout from the virus because the US dollar is currently over-valued. "During the GFC the USD was undervalued, but in these current circumstances that it not the case, so when US investors start to buy ...

Virus fallout worse than GFC: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
The International Monetary Fund has called on every government around the world to introduce substantial targeted policies to support the economy through the coronavirus epidemic. In a blog post, Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... they braved it out, find that their places of employment are shuttered anyway. Coronaphobia is proving claims made during the GFC that governments and central banks should have let the global economy reboot - i.e., go into the recession it had to have ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... fallen to a lower level. "So you would say property looks more expensive today in the United States then it did before the GFC." By converting the rental yield of commercial property in the US against 10-year bonds, Douglass argued risk premiums in property ...

Chief economist update: Aussie employment rises... but so does our unemployment rate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... the termination of 32,700 part-time staff. The Australian dollar dropped to as low as US$0.6610 - its lowest level since the GFC - as markets raised their bets that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would "need" to cut interest rates again soon... ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the trade deal and the AUD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... 2001 and following the September 11 attacks of the same year; and, it dropped from US$0.91 to US$0.62 at the onset of the GFC. During the SARS outbreak, the A$ fell by 3.8% after the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a global alert in March 2003 ...