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FEATURE: Beyond Beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... over the last few years, driven by investors' disappointment with active management in the wake of the global financial crisis. According to Vanguard, the percentage of index funds created each year following criteria other than market cap weighting ...

Tassie RBF awards GAM $100m mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... diversified portfolios," he said. "Risk management is demonstrated by the fact this product survived the global financial crisis when a number of competitor products closed." RBF has placed the GAM investment in its absolute return investment pool, which ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
When the global financial crisis broke, people dubbed them the PIIGS. Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain were the ugly ducklings of Europe. They had inefficient economies, had been relying on EU funding and were heavily indebted. Today, most ...

Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... financial system." The asset management paper highlights the global industry has grown rapidly following the global financial crisis. Australia's asset management industry was estimated to have $2.6 trillion assets under management (AUM) at the end of ...

Insync with beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... beer company owns brands such as Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois among others. If the equivalent of a global financial crisis was to occur again, Kotecha said AB InBev would be ideally placed. "[In the GFC] companies were slashing dividends and raising ...

La Trobe pooled mortgage fund rated by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... consideration in assessing the La Trobe Financial's long-term performance is the fact that throughout the global financial crisis, the PMO was able to continue to provide investors with stable income streams, while meeting the liquidity requirements ...

Over-reliant bank lending slows OECD economic growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... a stronger drag on growth than credit to businesses. OECD chief economist, Catherine L. Mann, said the global financial crisis has raised deep questions about the influence of finance on economic activity and the distribution of income. "What our research ...

Super pool reducing Aussie reliance on foreign capital: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... of domestic investment. "While companies in other countries had difficulty finding funding during the global financial crisis (GFC), superannuation funds provided an important source of capital for Australian companies refinancing during the GFC," Vamos ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... that's going to hit the consumer." But with Australian consumers more indebted than they were prior to the global financial crisis, there is a risk that they stop spending and confidence falls. "Then, you're caught up in very bad spiral where consumers ...

FEATURE: Defending wealth

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... turning to riskier investments to preserve and guarantee their income in this unpredictable environment. The global financial crisis drew a line in the sand for investors. Most talk about the years before the great debacle with nostalgia. They were easier ...