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Westpac deputy chief executive retires

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... than 20 years ago. Over that time, we have handled the disruption from Y2K, the DotCom era, 9/11 and the Global Financial Crisis." "We have transformed the company via the acquisitions of BT and St. George and dramatically strengthened the balance sheet ...

RBA zeroes in on balance sheets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... said. Bullock told this morning's Bloomberg address on the risks facing Australia's economy since the global financial crisis that she personally would not speculate on a housing bubble. "What we're really focusing on is to what extent are things like ...

Private equity sector resilient

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... ready for exit as the industry has largely worked through the backlog of assets invested prior to the global financial crisis, the report says. "After several years, the industry has finally normalised through the exits of the massive deals done in 2006 ...

Instos unclear about ETF value

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... markets, Tucker says. Fixed income ETFs became a "point of discovery for many institutions" after the global financial crisis when liquidity in the bond market began to change. Individual bond traders didn't have the same freedom because their counterparties ...

Super playing dangerous risk game: Milliman

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
... underlying goals of an ageing population and shows that the industry has learnt little from the impact of the global financial crisis." Explaining the problem, the paper said that because of the wave of super members now entering retirement, and the ...

Global investors missed turning point

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
An Australian fund manager says the Global Financial Crisis clouded a crucial economic turning point that is beyond the powers of politicians, banks and geographies. Insync Funds Management chief investment officer, Monik Kotecha says in 2011 the world ...

Trump protectionism protects not the emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2016
Reflation - the word that dominated central bank memes after the global financial crisis is back in vogue. While it became something of "it's at the back of everyone's minds, but not talked about" in intervening years, President-elect Trump has brought ...

Listed infrastructure has winners and losers

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... March 2016, many fund managers in the Lonsec Research peer group suffered their worst draw-downs since the Global Financial Crisis - although nothing close to this scale. There was a return range of more than 20 percentage points between the best and ...

Munchenberg to exit ABA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... banking industry navigate through a rapidly changing political and regulatory environment in the wake of the global financial crisis and more recently as the industry has strived to better explain the role banks play for customers, the community and ...

CBA chair steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... Turner said he has greatly enjoyed his time with the bank. "The strength of CBA meant that following the global financial crisis it was able to continue supporting its customers, accelerate innovation and fulfill its vital role in the broader Australian ...