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Chief economist update: China turns crisis into opportunity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... incorrect by Sinologists, this quotation attributed to John F. Kennedy regained prominence during the Global Financial Crisis. Lost in translation or not, it appears that China is once again turning the coronavirus crisis into an opportunity. Makes you ...

Chief economist update: Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... changers. In the meantime, Wall Street's back to the bad news is good news meme witnessed during the Global Financial Crisis. The bad-er economic news gets, the good-er would be policy responses from Capitol Hill and the Fed. Greed must really be ...

Spaceship delivers for millennials

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... the report, Rainmaker's MySuper index returned its first negative financial year return since the Global Financial Crisis of -0.90% at the end of FY20. The index registered 5.1% p.a. (three years), 5.5% p.a. (five years) and 7.5% p.a. (10 years). ...

Chief economist update: Australia's third arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... would have been in a recession (like many other countries including the US, Europe and Japan) during the global financial crisis had it not been for the double-digit growth in China (at the time) and its voracious appetite for our goods and services. ...

Real opportunity for super funds in private assets: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... said, it's important to focus on the company's experience and how they have dealt with things like the global financial crisis and the dot com bust. "It's also important to focus on all these sort of issues from the past few years, thinking about them ...

Industry fund chief to step down

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... has helped steer the group through the Y2K scare, the dot.com crash, the September 11 terror attacks, a global financial crisis and now the COVID-19 pandemic," Masters said. Wills takes the reins from 1 January 2021. He has been chief operating officer ...

Chief economist update: Australia succumbs to pandemic-induced recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... 1997/98, the September 11 terrorists attacks on the US and the subsequent recession there in 2001, and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 that subsequently put many world economies into a recession. But now it's all over. A teenie-weenie microscopic ...

Chief economist update: Japan economy tanks depsite looser restrictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... fall on post-war era records - down 10% year-on-year - eclipsing the 8.6% contraction suffered during the global financial crisis - and down 7.8% in the three months to June. All three measures have been negative since the December 2019 quarter, before ...

REITs better value than bonds, equities: LaSalle

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies are in a far better position than they were during the Global Financial Crisis, LaSalle Investment Management said, with many real estate investment trusts (REITs) currently trading at a discount to NAV. ...

Take your CAPE ratio with a grain of salt

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... end of 2017 until October 2018 - after which Wall Street posted its worst yearly performance since the Global Financial Crisis. And while the CAPE ratio is not 'the be all and end all', it does show how earnings and price have moved together ...