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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 ...

Economic recap: Week to October 22

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... instances of recession (until the GFC, that is). It was the time of the "Great Moderation". However, since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, inflation died. We've been all witnesses to half-a-century low unemployment rates across many nations ...

Economic recap: Week to October 8

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2021
... that followed, had largely consigned stagflation to baby boomers' memories. Even more so after the global financial crisis, when years of stronger growth and record low unemployment rates failed to significantly lift inflation (low-flation). Case ...

Adviser overwhelm explained

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... future to the ASIC funding levy." Anderson concluded that he is concerned a Black Swan event, such as the global financial crisis or product crash, and how costs of this would flow through to the advice industry. The AFA and Anderson therefore want to ...

Wayne Swan to chair Cbus

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... superannuation is more important than ever. "Just as superannuation played a vital role in responding to the global financial crisis, so too will it play a vital role in our pandemic recovery," Swan said. "Not only does superannuation allow working Australians ...