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Macquarie raked over the coals again by ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... first enforcement action over short sale reporting since regulations were introduced in 2009 following the Global Financial Crisis. Macquarie, however, is no stranger to an ASIC crackdown - this latest action is its fourth regulatory hit in little over ...

Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... rates over three decades, four rounds of US Federal Reserve quantitative earnings during and after the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, lower tax rates, and more recently, investment hype surrounding artificial intelligence. He acknowledged ...

Labor vs Liberal: Which government is better for Australian stocks?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... benefits were largely external to domestic politics. Meanwhile, Rudd took office in the early days of the global financial crisis which had an enormous bearing on the woeful stock market performance of his tenure." He said a better benchmark might be ...

US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
The US stock market has returned nearly twice as much as international markets since the Global Financial Crisis, which subsequently resulted in its share of global equity market capitalisation approaching almost 70% by the end of last year. History ...

Investment down as uncertainty rises

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... trend which has seen the average level of uncertainty increase after key economic disruptions such as the global financial crisis and pandemic. Deloitte Access Economics said uncertainty makes it harder to form a view on the future and tends to weigh ...

BlackRock loses senior executive touted as Fink's successor

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... Advisory division (FMA) - which advises clients on complex financial matters. Interestingly, during the Global Financial Crisis, the FMA was called upon to provide emergency support to governments and financial institutions. Before BlackRock, Wiedman ...

Magellan warns of staggering sovereign debt

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... national debt has been rising since the 1980s. In 2010, following the government's response to the Global Financial Crisis, it first exceeded 90% as a percentage of GDP - the level identified by academics Reinhart and Rogoff as associated with a ...

Calls for independent oversight on mortgage stress

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... mortgage arrears in Australia remained very close to zero during other major global events, such as the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, but despite this, regulators continue to impose additional constraints on lending, competition ...

The four Ds to watch in the decades to come: La Trobe

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... is the continuing rise of private credit," he noted, describing it as a "second order impact from the Global Financial Crisis." Just recently, and for the first time ever, the amount of passively managed assets on US stock exchanges is now greater than ...

Government lifts funding to preserve banking in the Pacific

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... about 60% since 2011. He attributed this to two main reasons. First, bank returns have decreased since the Global Financial Crisis due to higher capital requirements, more expensive technology, and stronger competition. "Lower returns mean that banks ...