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Sargon lender sends in voluntary administrators

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
Taiping Trustees on Friday appointed voluntary administrators for Sargon Capital and two Trimantium companies, in what could eventually decide Sargon's fate. Wexted Advisors' Andrew McCabe and Joseph Hayes were on March 6 appointed as the voluntary ...

Virus fallout worse than GFC: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... with the post-9/11 terrorist attacks but lower than after the global financial crisis." In response, the IMF said central banks must be prepared to provide "ample liquidity" and banks and non-bank finance companies. The fund also called on governments ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... activity) wrought by coronaphobia is shaking what has become an orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe. Grexit, the Jasmine Revolution, North Korea's missile launches, Brexit and Trump's ...

ANZ wealth exit sees hundreds of jobs go

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... own profit at the expense of the broader economy is self-serving and short sighted." She added that Australia "backed the banks" through the global financial crisis and that ANZ should be mindful of its broader responsibility to the community. "ANZ actions ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... Quoting Warren Buffett, Douglass said the value of assets and investments are 100% sensitive to interest rates. "Central banks are trying to stimulate economies with these policies of super low interest rates," he said. "But at the same time, they're ...

J.P. Morgan offloads Melbourne properties

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... assets in Melbourne and the cap rate on any deal could hit 5%. Twenty8 Freshwater Place is a mixed-use development on the banks of the Yarra, in Southbank. The 34,000sqm tower had undergone a multi-million-dollar upgrade.

Chief economist update: A crisis of supply, demand and confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... finance ministers and central bank governors of the G7 to assure us, mere mortals, of a concerted response. Several central banks have already cut interest rates led by the Reserve Bank of Australia and underscored by the US Federal Reserve's inter-meeting ...

JP Morgan's coronavirus contingency plan

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... banking business in the US. About 10% of these employees will be asked to test working from home over the next few weeks. Banks around the world have been rolling out their own contingency plans in response to COVID-19, limiting or restricting staff ...

Chief economist update: Australia's gentle turning point to turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... the counter-measures planned and already implemented by Chinese authorities and the on-going concerted action by central banks around the world. The RBA's recent rate cut (and promise of more if necessary), the Morrison government's ready to ...

Baird exits NAB

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... executive Andrew Thorburn, McEwan and the board through one of the most challenging and disruptive periods for Australian banks. "I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Ross and I know the culture and structural changed being considered will be strong ...