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Unstable markets demand more from COOs

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... officer, according to La Trobe Financial. "There have already been a couple of behavioural cycles since the global financial crisis. The first cycle was marked by a scramble for liquidity followed by a slow reaction to the opportunities available from ...

MSCI risk model targets volatility

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... always quite slow to adapt," said Kennedy. "That usually wasn't such a big deal, but it was during the global financial crisis. Volatility changed so quickly and by so much that it made your forecasts and what you actually received in terms of risk and ...

BlackRock funds target new investment climate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... unlikely we will see a return to the highly liquid, low volatility market conditions experienced before the Global Financial Crisis. We have entered into a new age of investing and it is time for new investment thinking," said Michael McCorry, head of ...

Property syndicates attracting overseas investment

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... Charter Hall Direct Property. Stacker said that the retail syndicate market has changed notably since the global financial crisis, with investors seeking to invest into quality assets with lower gearing, conservative payout ratios, increased transparency ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... year's lows and the March 2008 to May 2009 period, when households feared a recession associated with the global financial crisis, we have to go all the way back to 2001... to find sustained lower reads." Did Bill say, 2001, 2008, 2009 and 2011? Boyoboyoboy ...

Debt crisis has 15 yr shelf life

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... particularly in Europe where the total debt to GDP ratio in Europe had not changed since the start of the global financial crisis. "The crisis hasn't even started and will take 15 years to resolve." European governments are lacking the usual tools to ...

PIMCO appoints new portfolio specialist

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... wealth management business going from strength to strength, with monthly inflows 10 times larger than pre-global financial crisis levels." At Morningstar Valtwies provided analysis and investment advice to large financial institutions, investment committees ...

Record month for ETPs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... increase in popularity this year. "Challenging market conditions and unprecedented volatility since the global financial crisis in 2008 have caused a significant shift in investors' appetite for risk," said Frank Henze, SSgA's head of SPDR ETFs for Asia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... considering those measures made potentially the greatest contribution to pulling the world economies out of the global financial crisis. "The Australian market has responded positively to China's weekend announcement of a further 0.5 per cent cut in ...

GM shuts down DB fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... sheet risk. The car manufacturing world heavy weight got into trouble in 2009 during the worst of the Global Financial Crisis and only survived as a result of $US50 billion TARP loan from the US federal government. Pension liabilities weren't the only ...