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Chief economist update: How deep the global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
... 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 International ...

Vanguard boosts superannuation team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... recent months. Garry Caldow was brought on as product lead, insurance in January. He joined Vanguard from Mercer after a decade long career at Colonial First State. Michael Lovettt returned from Vanguard's US head office to Melbourne to lead the super ...

Changes to foreign investment rules hurt managed funds

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... businesses from being acquired at the cheap by foreign investors, which occurred during the Global Financial Crisis more than a decade ago. At the time, Frydenberg denied that the move was directed at China. Atlas Advisors Australia executive chair Guy ...

Chief economist update: BOK holds as infections ease

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... a month before. At its March 16 emergency meeting, the BOK cut its base rate by 50 bps to 0.75% -- the first in over a decade - and reduced the Bank Intermediated Lending Support Facility rate by 50 bps to 0.25% to support SMEs affected by the virus ...

Open banking to charge on

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... they will be profound," Sims said. "I Have no doubt, this is as important a reform as achieved in that wonderful reform decade of the 1980s. And it is a reform for this moment." Sims said now is the time to expedite digital innovation, particularly given ...

Is it time to lean on the Future Fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... stimulus payments and weaker revenue in response to falling profits and jobs. He says it will take government more than a decade to bay back its borrowings or it may decide it wants to run a higher debt to GDP ratio instead of paying down debt. Future ...

Chief economist update: AUD depreciation no cure for coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
All good things must come to an end and this 'Lucky Country's' luck appears to have ran out after enjoying 28 years and a bit without an economic recession. Australia has survived economic and financial market upheavals over the past three ...

Market recovery or dead cat bounce?

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... recovery, giving people time to assess positions and potentially get back into the market." He believes this is a once in a decade opportunity for investors to pick up quality stocks at a discount. "If you can look through the valley in two to three ...

The bulls are back

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
The Dow Jones has recorded its shortest bear market in the index's history, as investors regain confidence in a market rife with volatility. The Dow experienced its strongest three days in nine decades after record weekly US jobless claims came ...

Challenger general manager jumps to boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
It's reunion time at Yarra Capital Management, as Challenger's general manager of national accounts, research and platforms joins the team to work with an old colleague. Yarra Capital Management has hired Rommel Hacopian as a distribution manager ...