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Chief economist update: Japan to double down on stimulus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... five minutes of sunshine. Japan's economy has risen and fell through the 1990-91 recession, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2001 US recession, the 2007-2009 Great Recession, the 2010-2012 European sovereign debt crisis and lately, the 2020 COVID-19 ...

US upbeat on stimulus, vaccination

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... Fed has already blown out its balance sheet by about US$304 trillion, making its initiatives during the Global Financial Crisis "look a little small", he said. One question he is asked frequently is: what potential problems will this mountain of debt ...

Chief economist update: Fed fights back bond bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... premature tightening of financial conditions that'll negate all the efforts they have thrown at the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Not on their watch.

Financial services least trusted industry: Edelman

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... claw back eight points - perhaps reflecting the increased emphasis on ethics and regulation following the global financial crisis. Just 44% of people trusted financial services in 2012, compared to 77% trusting technology and 64% trusting food and beverage ...

Aussie dividends slump 40%

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
... "Crucially, the world's banks (which usually pay the largest share of the world's dividends) mostly entered the crisis with healthy balance sheets. Bank dividends may have been restricted by regulators in some parts of the world, but the banking ...

Continuous disclosure laws to stay

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... Josh Frydenberg flagged that the temporary disclosure laws for public companies relaxed at the height of the coronavirus crisis will be made permanent. In May 2020, the government announced the temporary measures, modifying provisions under Corporations ...

Chief economist update: Light at the end of the Euro tunnel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... containment measures, which would in turn affect the timing and strength of the expected recovery. There is also a risk that the crisis could leave deeper scars in the EU's economic and social fabric, notably through widespread bankruptcies and job ...

Evergreen launches stress testing tool

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... adviser marketplace." The GreenVUE tool will allow advisers to run portfolios through re-simulations of the global financial crisis, the Euro-debt crisis, the US credit rating downgrade, oil shocks and US recession, rising global interest rates, trade ...

Chief economist update: Disappointing jobs results raise Biden's stimulus bid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2021
... (er, celebrate), Joe Biden is here. Yes Virginia, we're back to that familiar refrain borne from the global financial crisis of a decade before - bad news is good news. This is because the weakness in the US labour market only strengthens Joe Biden's ...

Lifecycle products cost members: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... was a 3.3 percentage point gap between the top placed product, and the bottom placed product. Rainmaker said the COVID-19 crisis has added extra pressure with the difference in returns over the 12 months to 30 November 2020 growing to 5.5 percentage ...