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Westpac flags $2.2bn impairment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... work closely with those customers to help them through that process." Having materially strengthened capital over the last decade, he said, the group is well positioned to absorb the increase and respond to further developments in the environment. Westpac's ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... source of diversification, De Corrado said. "They have seen the rapid appreciation in value for the asset over the past decade, and want to add Bitcoin to diversify their portfolio," he said. "Some investors are forward-thinking and see the potential ...

Boutique manager taps former Challenger executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... chief risk officer at TCorp, having been appointed in 2012. Prior to taking on the role, he served the organisation for a decade, including more than six years as general manager of risk. He joined TCorp from Schroders, where he was a senior credit analyst ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... told Financial Standard that passive strategies had pushed asset prices aggressively ahead of fundamentals. "Over the last decade we've seen huge flows into passive investment strategies and during a period of steadily upward trending markets that ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... double-digit GDP growth (at the time) shielded Australia from the Great Recession of 2008/09 and the Asian financial crisis a decade earlier. China's slow early return to business as usual offers hope that Australia may be able to again skip a recession... ...

Healthcare outperforms as financials plummet

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen Australia's healthcare sector soar as our financials, energy and real estate sectors plummet. However, S&P Dow Jones Indices senior director of global equity indices Michael Orzano said it's a trend that has been ...

MLC Life executive joins AFCA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... national superannuation practice of law firm Hall & Wilcox, where she has been a partner since 2013. She brings more than a decade of experience on the Law Council of Australia's Superannuation Committee to AFCA, including a stint as chair. AFCA chief ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic could lead emerging markets to 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 ...

Man Group hires from BlackRock

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... office. Swan was most recently head of Asia and global emerging market fundamental equities at BlackRock. He's had an almost decade-long career at BlackRock, joining its Hong Kong team in 2011. Prior to that, Swan spent 17 years at J.P. Morgan in equity ...

COVID-19 is not the only factor: deVere

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... The warning follows last week's sharp rally in global markets, with the MSCI experiencing its biggest rise in more than a decade Green said a better insight into the effects of COVID-19 will come as first-quarter earnings results season gets underway. ...