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Magellan warns of staggering sovereign debt

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... national debt has been rising since the 1980s. In 2010, following the government's response to the Global Financial Crisis, it first exceeded 90% as a percentage of GDP - the level identified by academics Reinhart and Rogoff as associated with a ...

Calls for independent oversight on mortgage stress

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... mortgage arrears in Australia remained very close to zero during other major global events, such as the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, but despite this, regulators continue to impose additional constraints on lending, competition ...

The four Ds to watch in the decades to come: La Trobe

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... is the continuing rise of private credit," he noted, describing it as a "second order impact from the Global Financial Crisis." Just recently, and for the first time ever, the amount of passively managed assets on US stock exchanges is now greater than ...

Government lifts funding to preserve banking in the Pacific

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
... about 60% since 2011. He attributed this to two main reasons. First, bank returns have decreased since the Global Financial Crisis due to higher capital requirements, more expensive technology, and stronger competition. "Lower returns mean that banks ...

Loomis Sayles brings global bond fund to Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
... sustainable returns through nearly 40 years of market cycles, including the dot-com boom and bust, the Global Financial Crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. "We have been working with Australian and global clients for more than 25 years, so we believe ...

Morningstar equities research lead departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2024
... larger than others, including the Crash of October 1987, the collapse of the Dot.com boom in 2000, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, and more recently the Covid pandemic." "But financial markets prevail and move forward, upward and break records. ...

US family office launches Australian arm

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2024
... international markets," it said. Asena chair Peter Nathanial said that as part of the fallout from the global financial crisis, international banks found themselves facing enormous regulatory hurdles which ultimately resulted in changed business models ...

REITs primed for investor cash amid uncertainty

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
... investment option during the more common recessions of the past 35 years, indicating that COVID-19 and Global Financial Crisis were more of an exception than the norm. Principal Asset Management chief investment officer Todd Jablonski said the discount ...

Mild recession in 2024, higher interest rates: Vanguard

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... "Policy rates are therefore likely to remain at heightened levels compared with periods following the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 pandemic." The fund manager maintains its position on sticking to a 60-40 portfolio, confident in the probability ...

Small-cap shares set to soar: Flinders

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
... Standard, Macdougall discussed the significant downturn small caps have experienced - the biggest since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). "For almost two years now, small caps have underperformed large caps, and for the most part this has come down ...
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