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Product Showcase: Calm in the chaos

THE FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM | MONDAY, 1 JUN 2026

... forecasts. Third, regardless of the share price, the company's balance sheet should survive a Global Financial Crisis (GFC) stress test. Finally, Fairbrother says that a contrarian strategy has to be 'emotionally resilient', meaning you can't ...

FEATURE: Fixed income | Adjusting the lens

PENNY PRYOR | TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2026

... "Within the fixed income world, credit spreads have pretty much reached the tightest levels we've seen since maybe pre-GFC, maybe of all time. Meaning the compensation for default is very low, but defaults have also been low," he says. Rauch also ...

FEATURE | Regulation: Picking up the pieces

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026

... if I don't stand up and help them, who will?" Like many others, Kee lost a lot of money in the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). When she returned to Australia after that at age 40, she had to start from scratch. "I built a business and more than compensated ...

Deutsche Bank shares surpass book value for first time since GFC

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026

... its stock price rise to €33.82 overnight, trading above book value for the first time since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008. The milestone would come as a win for chief executive Christian Sewing who has been focused on rebuilding the Deutsche ...

The Big Short's Michael Burry shutters fund

KARREN VERGARA | FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025

... thinker I have ever encountered." Burry's bet against the US housing market in the lead up to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was made famous in the book The Big Short and thereafter the movie where he was played by Christian Bale. Burry is reported ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN | WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025

... sensitive to market and sequencing risk. "But to be honest, if you wind the clock back to before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), I bet most people would never have heard of sequencing risk," says Teh. "It was only when the GFC happened that everybody ...

FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN | FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025

... tells it, gearing - and specifically the use of margin loans - was a popular method of investing pre-Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The problem that arose was many investors were taking out margin loans and investing the money into only a handful - if ...

Institutional investors show signs uncertainty has peaked: State Street

ELIZA BAVIN | MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025

... their highest levels in 25 years," Metcalfe said. "The only times they were higher were during the dot-com bubble and the GFC, serving as a caution that today's buoyant sentiment could be vulnerable to shocks." Despite numerous potential pitfalls ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025

... behaviour come to the fore alongside feelings around loss aversion. As an example, Li looked to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), when the S&P500 fell 57% between September 2007 and late March 2009. US households lost US$16.4 trillion; about 20% of ...

Section 899 ditched but companies face tax uncertainties

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025

... countries, she said, foreseeing that European equities would likely benefit from the frenzy. "What we've seen since the GFC is European investor allocations to the US rising from 15% in 2009 to 45% at the end of 2024," she said, adding that if section ...

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BT appoints new head of strategy

KARREN VERGARA | 10:47AM

A former Allianz Retire+ executive has joined BT as the new head of strategy.

ASX sees trade volumes soar in May

MATTHEW WAI | 12:24PM

ASX saw a substantial growth in trade volumes last month, despite continued lackluster movement in IPOs.

Otivo launches AI-powered financial advice

MATTHEW WAI | 12:21PM

Otivo has launched a mobile app for Australians to access licensed advice powered by AI.

Munro expands access to climate focused fund

VINNY VUCAGO | 12:09PM

The Munro Global Growth Climate Leaders PIE Fund has been opened to retail investors in New Zealand.

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