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Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
... that the underemployment rate had risen above the 7.8% high (December quarter 2009) recorded during the global financial crisis starting in the third quarter of 2014 and has continued to trend higher ever since (8.8% in the June 2017 quarter), helping ...

Transport bolsters listed infrastructure demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... outpaced global equities (6%), property securities (3%) and bonds (8%) on a per annum basis. Even during the global financial crisis, listed infrastructure remained resilient and earnings grew, the CFSGAM whitepaper noted, adding the high degree of structural ...

AustralianSuper posts annual investment results

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... year out of five with double digit returns, and the eighth consecutive year of positive returns since the Global Financial Crisis. About 90% of AustralianSuper members invest their retirement savings in the Balanced option. Deputy chief executive and ...

New cash fund targets retirees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... of the few pooled mortgage trusts in Australia to keep paying investors a monthly income throughout the global financial crisis, with average returns of 7.85% per annum. He added Trilogy Enhanced Cash has enlisted Australian cricket legend Ian Healy ...

Fearless forecasting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... there. Who knows what would have happened if the dotcom bubble didn't intervene, or September 11, or the Global Financial Crisis? But that's just it, economies don't operate in a vacuum and extrapolating market direction doesn't work because, unlike ...

Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... Tepeli says. Quantitative equity investing gained notoriety thanks to its strong performance throughout the Global Financial Crisis, with good, risk-adjusted performance and diversification benefits continuing to drive investor demand. Willis Towers ...

Banking scrutiny to escalate: ABA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... Consequentially, more than 20 reviews into various aspects of Australia's banking system have emerged since the global financial crisis in 2008; 17 inquiries, reviews or investigations commenced in 2016 alone; and hundreds of recommendations have been ...

Super fund private equity demand growing

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... classes in the form of private equity funds has historically been low at 8%; this was aggravated after the global financial crisis when super funds all of a sudden saw themselves overweight in alternative assets, Casali told a media roundtable. During ...

CBA CFO to retire, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... contribution to CBA, particularly through his leadership of the finance and treasury functions during the global financial crisis and subsequent regulatory change, and his ongoing stewardship of CBA's long-term investments in technology and productivity," ...

'Retire ready' is more than a large super balance

EMMA RAPAPORT, STEPHEN FAY  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... retirement could more fully visualise for the scenarios ahead. According to Rogers, experience from the global financial crisis showed that there was significant flexibility to adjust retirement spending when needed.