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TWUSUPER chair retires after two decades

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022
... members guide decision making at TWUSUPER," Sandy said. "Mr Galbally's time as chair has included the Global Financial Crisis and most recently, the coronavirus pandemic. Despite these challenges, Mr Galbally has led consistently and with composure." ...

Pain of commodity price increases to last: World Bank

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
... commentators were expecting a figure between 4.5% and 5%, broadly in line with the shocks felt during the Global Financial Crisis.

'We're living in the world China is making': Conference

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
... China has become Australia's largest trading partner and helped to buttress Australia against the global financial crisis and the Asian financial crisis before that. Grant said that Australia like the rest of the world was clamouring for China's ...

Wayne Swan joins AIST board

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
... over 25 years in Parliament, including the lessons of helping manage the Australian economy during the global financial crisis as treasurer," Scheerlinck said. "As chair of the Caucus Economics Committee in 1993 he participated in the development and ...

Recession-style policy but no recession: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
... next six months; that's 1.3% of GDP," Wood explained. "Compare this to the stimulus package from the Global Financial Crisis - that was 1.2% of GDP over six months. We are not in a recession, and we're not in a crisis. We're expected to have ...

Key Budget measure won't help economy: Academic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2022
... "Markets eventually react to this gap between perception and reality - which is what happened with the 2008 Global Financial Crisis," he said. "The Treasurer should establish and finance a sovereign wealth fund managed by a trust comprised of people ...

Chief economist: Thank you, Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... This, despite "hiccups" brought on by the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98; the dotcom bust in 2000; the global financial crisis in 2008/09; and, the European sovereign debt crisis of 2010/13. Threats and sanctions won't stop Putin, the US and NATO ...

Private debt and YFYS: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
... that is available tends to skew to the US. In Australia, government funding provided to banks during the Global Financial Crisis has somewhat stifled the Australian private debt market, leaving it lagging global markets. As at March 2021, Australasian ...

The dark side of super switching: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... 2020. This tripling meant 18% of the average member base switched options. For comparison, during the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, just 6% switched options. These switches were often poor choices in terms of financial wellbeing and the growth of ...

La Trobe fined for misleading investors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
... action against La Trobe in December last year, the firm said that no liquidity event, even though the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, ever occurred that required it to delay meeting redemptions. "We have never withheld a monthly distribution ...