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Howard: Bank scrutiny "strange"

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... Minister John Howard, who heralded the institutions as one of four pillars that guided Australia through the Global Financial Crisis. Howard was the first plenary speaker to address the AFA 2016 National Adviser Conference and highlighted the importance ...

Forager plans listing for Australian Shares Fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... consider the size of our investments in each. "This is the right thing to do by our investors. When the next global financial crisis event hits I don't want to be worried about our own lack of liquidity when I should be taking advantages of others." ...

Global equity managers not currency selectors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... fundamentals. This was atypical and attributable to the poor performance of this style of investing during the Global Financial Crisis in 2009," Schmidt said. The study finds the impact of currency factors on global equity returns is similar in magnitude ...

Top pension funds slide for first time since GFC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... Total assets of the 300 largest pension funds worldwide fell for the first time since the beginning of the global financial crisis, according to Willis Towers Watson research. The P&I/Willis Towers Watson global 300 report shows that in 2015, total assets ...

ABA denies precedent for matching RBA cash rates

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... the pressures of a highly competitive market, not the Reserve Bank cash rate. "Since the start of the global financial crisis, over eight years ago, the Reserve Bank's cash rate has not mirrored the actual funding costs of banks. Banks have explained ...

PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... culture; not right or wrong, just different. The structure was very entrepreneurial," she remembers. When the global financial crisis hit, Bouch suddenly found herself in a different market. "I had very close friends working for Lehman Brothers and I ...

PROFILE: Industry Super Australia chief economist Stephen Anthony

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... three Ts approach - temporary, targeted and timely - that underpinned Kevin Rudd's response during the Global Financial Crisis. I was very proud of that work," Anthony says. He then moved to the department of finance and worked on issues like the Future ...

Milliman awarded industry fund mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... industry. Members need strong investment returns but find themselves facing greater uncertainty in a post-global financial crisis world. Unfortunately, many risk management processes in the market come at significant cost, provide marginal protection ...

US mulls borrowing limit on leveraged ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... been used as short-term trading instruments since the early 1990s but gained a bad reputation when the global financial crisis saw some retail investors experience heavy losses leading to legal action claiming they never should have been sold the instrument. ...

Industry fund CEO joins MGP

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... chaired the group's audit, risk and compliance committee. "Together we guided the business through the global financial crisis, worked hard to refine the strategy, took the company public and set it on the right path for continued growth," Collins said. ...