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Chief economist update: Coronavirus has gone viral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... and 2010 (although this had been muddied by the substantial monetary and fiscal policy responses to the global financial crisis). During the SARS outbreak - where the coronavirus is now being compared to - global GDP grew by 4.5% between 2003 and 2004. ...

NGS Super sets up impact committee

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... Disclosures (TCFD) report, identifying the risks and opportunities for its members' savings stemming from the climate change crisis. NGS Super was among the top five funds for three-year risk-adjusted returns, to September end, according to Rainmaker. ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... existing players to launch new products and services in markets ranging from financial services to aged care." The climate crisis will also play a major role in regulation, with environmental regulation rigorously enforced. "Environmental impact will ...

Aussie stocks burnt in blaze

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... and transport sectors. The Australian economy is also not without risk, with many economists predicting that the bushfire crisis could drag GDP by 0.25% for both the fourth quarter 2019 and the first quarter 2020. New research, coming out of investment ...

Chief economist update: Australians all let's not rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... and Grexit. Wait there's more. According to the consumer sentiment report: "Since the lows of the Global Financial Crisis where the Index averaged only 89 over a 15 month period from March 2008 to May 2009 there have only been seven monthly readings ...

Westpac appoints new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... successful turnaround program. Maxsted said McFarlane successfully helped Barclays return to profit after the Global Financial Crisis which had long-standing negative effects on the company. "During his four years as chairman, the company was streamlined ...

Chief economist update: More from Morrison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... right support is in place for small businesses as they get past the initial recovery phase of this unprecedented bushfire crisis..." These were Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's words when he opened the government's wallet wider and ...

Light on horizon for global economy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... risk to a rebound is climate change. In 2019 the global economy experiences the weakest growth since the Global Financial Crisis, but the IMF is expected 2020 to deliver global gross domestic product growth of 3.3%. The IMF published its expectations ...

Climate crisis tops list of risks for 2020s

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
For the first time, climate crisis and environmental degradation have taken out the top five spots in a list ranking the risks most likely to impact the world over the coming decade. It comes as extreme weather events batter the world; with fires burning ...

BlackRock wakes up to climate change

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... to other business leaders, the newly "woke" Fink likened climate change to the dot-com bubble and the global financial crisis... but worse. "Climate change is different. Even if only a fraction of the projected impacts is realised, this is a much more ...