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Chief economist update: Australians all let's not rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... and Grexit. Wait there's more. According to the consumer sentiment report: "Since the lows of the Global Financial Crisis where the Index averaged only 89 over a 15 month period from March 2008 to May 2009 there have only been seven monthly readings ...

Westpac appoints new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... successful turnaround program. Maxsted said McFarlane successfully helped Barclays return to profit after the Global Financial Crisis which had long-standing negative effects on the company. "During his four years as chairman, the company was streamlined ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... risk to a rebound is climate change. In 2019 the global economy experiences the weakest growth since the Global Financial Crisis, but the IMF is expected 2020 to deliver global gross domestic product growth of 3.3%. The IMF published its expectations ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... to other business leaders, the newly "woke" Fink likened climate change to the dot-com bubble and the global financial crisis... but worse. "Climate change is different. Even if only a fraction of the projected impacts is realised, this is a much more ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... during which weak trade and investment dragged the world economy to its feeblest performance since the global financial crisis, economic growth is poised for a modest rebound this year," she said. "However, for even that modest uptick to occur, many ...

Where to invest when a GFC looms

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... institutional investors globally and found that the highest proportion of them (58%) are expecting another global financial crisis in the next one to three years. A further 20% think the financial crisis could arrive in four to five years. About 5% think ...

Remediation bill tops $10b: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2019
... Bank of England governor Mark Carney estimated in 2017 for the global cost of misconduct for banks post Global Financial Crisis. "Our interim tally of $10 billion plus is perhaps not out of step when adjusted for the size of our economy. Only out of ...

FS Roundtable: Striking the perfect balance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
... provide guidance on how to tailor those models for individual client circumstances." At the onset of the Global Financial Crisis platforms underwent the ultimate stress test. Given the volatility and spike in trading volume, numerous platforms weren't ...

RMBS scrutiny could be loosened in US

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... revisions to its reporting requirements for asset-backed securities, including RMBS, in 2014 following the global financial crisis. Prior to that, disclosures and reporting requirements for such asset-backed securities had not been updated since 2004. ...

Inflation the forgotten risk to retiree portfolios

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... consumption would become a lot more expensive, the bonds in their portfolio would underperform, and unlike the Global Financial Crisis where it caused them to underperform their expectations by 10%, inflation massively damages their outcome, and they're ...