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Record tax receipts, record outlays yet back to surplus

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been able to declare Australia's first Budget surplus since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. But we'll have to wait until next year to see it. In Treasurer Frydenberg's first Budget it was revealed that Commonwealth ...

Franking changes feared by shareholders

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2019
... pointed to the continued faith retail investors placed in Australian companies - especially throughout the global financial crisis - and noted the importance of franking credits in ensuring that level of support for Australian companies. "Retail investors ...

IFM Investors adds policy director

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... where he was counsel to Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar. He also assisted with the regulatory response to the Global Financial Crisis. IFM global head of external relations and former ISA chief executive David Whiteley said during May's seven years at ISA ...

Chief economist update: The RBA capitulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... and Russian default in 1997/98; the US recession and the terrorists attacks on the US in 2001 and the global financial crisis in 2008. It's still too early to tell but if the lower yields on Australian Treasury notes, and more especially, the Australian ...

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... second) - this represents just half of the 4% average growth rate during the boom years preceding the 2008 global financial crisis. "Debt levels are high". Household debt to disposable income was clocked at 188.6% of household disposable income in the ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... never make it"? Even ex-Fed chief Ben Bernanke was oozing optimism months (or was it weeks?) before the global financial crisis hit. I apologise, I may have gone overboard with that simile but the ECB staff's downward revision to its macroeconomic ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... challenges before - the Asian currency crisis in 1997, the dotcom crash in 2000, the US recession in 2001, the global financial crisis in 2008, to name a few. The economy continued to grow as it had been doing for the past 27 years. Could this time be ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... second) - this represents just half of the 4% average growth rate during the boom years preceding the 2008 global financial crisis. "Debt levels are high". Household debt to disposable income rose to an all-time high of 190.5% in the second quarter (latest ...

Superannuation funds ramp up co-investment opportunities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... report also found superannuation funds comprise 40% of institutional investors in Australia. Since the Global Financial Crisis they have recorded median growth of 12% year on year.

October volatility sours investor outlook

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... has dampened investor confidence and many are expressing cynical outlooks for 2019 not seen since the Global Financial Crisis, latest Investment Trends insight shows. About 2100 retail investors canvassed in Investment Trends' Investor Intentions ...