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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.

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 ...