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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%."

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 ...