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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 ...

Fears Volcker Rule will hit sovereign bond trading

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... volumes for their sovereign bonds. The Volcker Rule was introduced by the Obama administration following the Global Financial Crisis to prevent investment banks trading on their account and owning, investing in or sponsoring a hedge fund or private equity ...

Surging institutional interest in frontier markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... interest again returns to the subset of emerging markets. While interest in the markets dissipated during the global financial crisis in a flight from risk, a long-term view and a desire for real diversification is leading institutional long-term investors ...

Shorten urges banks to stand by staff

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... told ABC radio the banks shouldn't forget the support given to them by taxpayers at the height of the global financial crisis (GFC). "It is most important that large organisations, whilst weighing up the need to increase profits and decrease costs, don't ...

German FM defends Euro

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... macroeconomic imbalances, excessive public debt and over leveraging by ill-advised banks. This is why the 2008 global financial crisis in Europe "morphed into a crisis of confidence, questioning the political will and determination of Eurozone members ...