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Msquared Capital secures $150m warehouse facility with Australian bank

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... for asset preservation events but liquidity as well," he said. "Many investors who invested during the Global Financial Crisis want to ensure their funds are not locked up for extended periods, as private markets are often illiquid in nature and they ...

ETF industry growth streak continues, shatters net inflow records

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... within 48 hours. That sent the VIX Index to levels unseen since the pandemic panic, and prior to that, the Global Financial Crisis. In April, the most recent reporting date, net inflows totalled US$157 billion. A substantial portion (US$88.3 billion) ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... to deliver their outperformance. "It's been a pretty horrible period for value managers since the Global Financial Crisis." The team has also tried to minimise "filling buckets for the sake of it." Historically, CFS would pair a growth manager with ...

Macquarie raked over the coals again by ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... first enforcement action over short sale reporting since regulations were introduced in 2009 following the Global Financial Crisis. Macquarie, however, is no stranger to an ASIC crackdown - this latest action is its fourth regulatory hit in little over ...

Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... rates over three decades, four rounds of US Federal Reserve quantitative earnings during and after the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, lower tax rates, and more recently, investment hype surrounding artificial intelligence. He acknowledged ...

Labor vs Liberal: Which government is better for Australian stocks?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... benefits were largely external to domestic politics. Meanwhile, Rudd took office in the early days of the global financial crisis which had an enormous bearing on the woeful stock market performance of his tenure." He said a better benchmark might be ...

US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
The US stock market has returned nearly twice as much as international markets since the Global Financial Crisis, which subsequently resulted in its share of global equity market capitalisation approaching almost 70% by the end of last year. History ...

Investment down as uncertainty rises

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... trend which has seen the average level of uncertainty increase after key economic disruptions such as the global financial crisis and pandemic. Deloitte Access Economics said uncertainty makes it harder to form a view on the future and tends to weigh ...

BlackRock loses senior executive touted as Fink's successor

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... Advisory division (FMA) - which advises clients on complex financial matters. Interestingly, during the Global Financial Crisis, the FMA was called upon to provide emergency support to governments and financial institutions. Before BlackRock, Wiedman ...

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 ...
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