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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. ...

Australian trust in financial services low

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... going through a bit of a trough and if there was a trough that would be unsurprising because we have had a global financial crisis, we have had a number of scandals. From a regulation perspective we see there is certainly a need for a move towards addressing ...

RBA appoints next governor

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... Stevens to steward the RBA through a challenging decade for the Australian economy, which included the global financial crisis, the passing of a once in a generation terms of trade boom, and the rise and fall of an unprecedented mining investment boom. ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... forever." Hofflin also highlights the lengthy underperformance of the value investment style since the global financial crisis, explaining that the style tends to be less effective during times of market distortions and that the highest future returns ...

Banks launch major consumer protection program today

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
... critical for the stability of our financial system. The strength of our banking sector got us through the global financial crisis. "Since then banks have done a lot of work in improving customer satisfaction, strengthening their balance sheets, and making ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... level that delineates optimism from pessimism) which, according to MNI, is "something not seen since the global financial crisis". However, while the latest survey indicated that strains on Chinese businesses have increased, "Increases in Production ...