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LGIAsuper appoints chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... management from $3 billion to more than $11 billion. "His leadership helped LGIAsuper emerge from the Global Financial Crisis as one of Australia's best-performing super funds," Smith said at the time. "With David focusing on investments, Noonan shaping ...

Chief economist update: Caught in the crossfire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... to rise to the occasion, the same thing it did during the Asian financial crisis of 1997/1998 and the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. The A$ has depreciated by 1.8% versus the US dollar in the first quarter of this year and by 4.0% on the trade ...

ETFs a winner in February market slump: Vanguard

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... among the stock market's securities has remained somewhat constant, except for the tech bubble and the global financial crisis," Vanguard said. Vanguard has a 28.5% slice of Australia's $30 billion pool of ETF assets. Around the world, more than US$5 ...

Chief economist update: Australia low on credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... the year before - a clear slowing and far below the double-digit rates recorded in the years before the global financial crisis. Download The Good Economics Guide: Making sense of key economic data Housing credit slowed to a year-on-year rate of 6.2% ...

Most investors shun credit ratings: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... Only one-in-four (26%) said the role rating agencies play is "very important" or "important." Since the global financial crisis, credit rating agencies have come under close scrutiny. When rating agencies are meant to provide investors with reliable ...

Don't blame ETFs: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... among the stock market's securities has remained somewhat constant except for the tech bubble and the global financial crisis." According to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), whatever the catalyst for the recent equity market selloff may ...

Retirees force the politics of income

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... Economists Forum that retirees' influence on populism is a major dilemma for asset managers globally. Since the Global Financial Crisis retirees have revised down their income targets and this, in part, helped evaporate political consensus. Retirees ...

Chief economist update: This time is different

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... naysayers predicting the sky to fall. Recall Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini's forecast back in the midst of the global financial crisis in 2009? "My main scenario is that it's highly likely it goes to 600 or below," Roubini said today in an interview at ...

Derivatives costly and ineffective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... median balanced super fund has posted eight consecutive financial years of positive returns since the global financial crisis. Investment returns in six of those years have been no lower than 8.7% as central banks around the world have flooded markets ...

Australia's wealth gap deepens: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
Australian billionaires amassed a $115.4 billion fortune in FY17, representing a 140% jump since the Global Financial Crisis, according to an Oxfam analysis. The Oxfam Growing Gulf Between Work and Wealth paper found Australia's richest 1% had more ...