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Keep COVID-19 in perspective: Panel

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... chart demonstrating the growth of global GDP every two years since 1940. It showed that World War Two, the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 were the only worldwide recessions in that period. Ruthven said it was government reactions to COVID-19, rather ...

Boards should be "strap-on brains": Cosgrove

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2021
... human being in the company of each other," he said. Leaders through COVID-19, Cosgrove said, must be aware that in the crisis people are like a "plague of mice", scattered and panic-stricken in the chaos. Therefore, leaders need to bring everything back ...

Chief economist update: Be afraid of inflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... between 2017 and 2019 and when then Fed chair Janet Yellen announced the first interest rate hike since the global financial crisis of 2009 in December 2016. These countermeasures kept reversed inflation expectations and kept measured inflation within ...

Australia is coming back: Frydenberg

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... forecast to reach 4.75% in the June quarter of 2023 - the first time since the years leading up to the Global Financial Crisis and the second time since the early 1970s. "Australia is coming back," treasurer Josh Frydenberg said. At the height of the ...

Key Treasury initiatives outlined

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... provide Australian regulators with the power to pre-emptively identify and manage risks, or intervene in a FMI failure crisis. Under the reforms, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will be able to manage a failure at a clearing and settlement facility. ...

Aged care expenditure to jump 37%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... demand from its 340,000 users, according to figures published by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, has reached crisis point. This has been exacerbated by weaknesses exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly among privately managed ...

MAX finalists named, voting open

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... RARE Infrastructure Income Fund Fidante - Ares Global Credit Income Fund QSuper - QSuper Lifetime Pension AIA Australia - Crisis Extension Cover PUBLIC RELATIONS AGENCY OF THE YEAR BlueChip Communication Honner PritchittBland Mountain Media Reverb Media ...

Research aims to solve cash conundrum

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... research looking at how best to solve the cash conundrum. Term deposit rates have fallen 96% since the Global Financial Crisis high of 8.25% and now sit at just 30 basis points, according to the research. A pre-GFC term deposit with $1.25 million could ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... on vaccinations" and while measured inflation has risen, it's largely temporary and that "The ongoing public health crisis continues to weigh on the economy, and risks to the economic outlook remain." But Bob Kaplan begged to disagree (and he knows ...

Chief economist update: Not yet time to make a change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... got..." As per the Fed, while measured inflation has risen, it's largely temporary and that "The ongoing public health crisis continues to weigh on the economy, and risks to the economic outlook remain." "The path of the economy will depend significantly ...