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Member governed super boards deliver more: SMC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2026
... stronger, risk-adjusted returns and "contribute to enhanced stability during market shocks, including the Global Financial Crisis, when representative funds have delivered lower volatility and stronger recoveries." "Lower fees, stronger long-term returns ...

Spain plans sovereign wealth fund launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
... double the pace of the EU. Its unemployment rate has reduced to 10.5%, a level not seen since before the Global Financial Crisis. However, the research showed Spain struggles with a productivity issue, with productivity rates well below the European ...

Macquarie onboards Westpac's group treasurer

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
... treasury in 2003 as a senior portfolio manager before being appointed deputy treasurer in 2008 during the Global Financial Crisis. She took over the role of the group treasurer in 2020. Before joining Westpac treasury, Dawson worked with IAG Asset Management ...

Trump plans to ban large investors from buying homes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
... historically have gone to first-time buyers and turning them into rentals. Policy settings in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis enabled greater investment activity by large firms, while the COVID-19 pandemic is said to have seen that activity accelerate. ...

Deutsche Bank shares surpass book value for first time since GFC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
... saw its stock price rise to €33.82 overnight, trading above book value for the first time since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008. The milestone would come as a win for chief executive Christian Sewing who has been focused on rebuilding the ...

FEATURE: Private credit | At the precipice

GLENDA KORPORAAL  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... of the market, the sheer size of the US private credit market, which has grown exponentially since the Global Financial Crisis, and the emergence of the sector in Australia, mean the asset class is getting more local attention. US-based financial houses ...

The Big Short's Michael Burry shutters fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... thinker I have ever encountered." Burry's bet against the US housing market in the lead up to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was made famous in the book The Big Short and thereafter the movie where he was played by Christian Bale. Burry is reported ...

Quant investing bounces back post Trump whipsaw

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... investing thrives when there are sustained trends emerging in the market. She gives the example of the Global Financial Crisis when the equity market collapsed for a substantial period of time, which allowed fund managers to pivot strategies. "The equity ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... most sensitive to market and sequencing risk. "But to be honest, if you wind the clock back to before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), I bet most people would never have heard of sequencing risk," says Teh. "It was only when the GFC happened that everybody ...

FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... Advice, tells it, gearing - and specifically the use of margin loans - was a popular method of investing pre-Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The problem that arose was many investors were taking out margin loans and investing the money into only a handful ...