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Jobs galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... "showed more companies are finding it more difficult to find suitable workers than at any time since the global financial crisis in 2008." The $64 million dollar question is whether the tightening Australian labour market translates into a pick-up in ...

On the road to normal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... its lowest level this year, which is in line with the readings of the boom years (2005-2007) before the global financial crisis hit. Speaking of boom, the US equity markets are having one of its own with all major equity indices - S&P 500; Dow Jones ...

Beware creative debt packaging: Robeco

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... into the trap of chasing yields and creatively packaging debt again - reminiscent of the lead up to the Global Financial Crisis, a fixed income expert says. Robeco Singapore fixed income chief executive Maurice Meijers said investment banks that are ...

Passive versus active is crippling: QIC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... benchmarks by intelligently exploiting desired risks and avoiding undesired ones," King said. "With the Global Financial Crisis and subsequent quantitative easing era as live stress tests, we show that there is value in allocating dynamically across ...

Asset managers feeling profit squeeze

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
Profit margins of asset managers globally contracted for the first time since the Global Financial Crisis, research from the Boston Consulting Group shows, warning fee pressures are continuing to rise across the industry. Despite global assets under ...

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 ...