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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%."

Chief economist update: Approaching peak isolation

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020

... month. This is the sharpest fall in the survey's record that eclipses the declines witnessed during the global financial crisis and the tsunami that hit the country in 2011. Similar to the US and the Eurozone (and perhaps, every other country in ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020

... outbreak - while over a very short term and limited in scope - is the first real-world test since the 2008 global financial crisis of the resilience of companies with high MSCI ESG Ratings." While the pandemic started in emerging markets (EM), developed ...

Dividends could take years to return: UBS

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020

... 2020 by 22%. "The pace of dividend revisions is now dropping at twice the average pace as seen during the global financial crisis," Stoltz said. Markets have experienced high volatility since the outbreak of COVID-19, with billions being wiped from equity ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY | THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020

... lose the last decade in progress, as the world sinks deeper into a global recession far worse than the Global Financial Crisis. That's according to State Street Global Advisors head of global macro policy research Amlan Roy, who argues the International ...

Top picks for dividends during COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD | THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020

UBS says the dividend dip in Australian stocks in the next year could be worse than the Global Financial Crisis, but six stocks are poised to pay good dividends. In 2008, dividends fell by $10.5 billion (or 28%) to $44.9 billion. But this time, dividends ...

How wealth management must respond to COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020

... value in less than a month. For comparison, the tech wreck of 2001 saw a 44% drop over four years and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 resulted in a 40% drop in six months. The speed at which the impact of COVID-19 and governments' reactions to the ...

Worse than the Great Depression: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020

... "This makes the Great Lockdown the worst recession since the Great Depression, and far worse than the Global Financial Crisis." Gopinath said if the pandemic fades in the second half of 2020 and policy actions taken around the world are effective the ...

Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020

... economy will experience its worst recession since the Great Depression, surpassing that seen during the global financial crisis a decade ago. The Great Lockdown, as one might call it, is projected to shrink global growth dramatically." This is how the ...

ISA warns Aussies off locking in losses

HARRISON WORLEY | TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020

... locks in any losses they suffered through the volatility. "At the last major market decline - during the Global Financial Crisis - savers who moved their money from an average balanced industry fund into cash were $4000 worse off after three months ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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