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16 December 2019 • By Lachlan Maddock • 1 min read

Mid-year budget a mixed bag

The government has downgraded its wage and growth forecast and $2 billion has been wiped off the promised surplus. Real GDP growth is forecast to ...

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Trade negotiations could hamper Brexit

Boris Johnson’s landslide victory has guaranteed Brexit, but the UK isn’t out of the woods yet. Quentin Fitzsimmons, a fixed income portfolio ...

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Keep lending curbs on standby: IMF

The IMF has said that macroprudential measures and continued infrastructure spending will be needed to keep Australia’s economy growing

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Global money managers say next GFC is on its way

Record levels of debt combined with low economic growth are driving fears among 83 per cent of institutional investors that a major financial crisis ...

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Geopolitics is top risk to finance: DTCC

Geopolitical risks and trade tensions rank as the greatest threat to global financial stability in 2020, according to a survey by the Depository Trust ...

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Westpac hasn’t learned its lesson

The AGM was a chance for shareholders to send a message. They didn’t take it. When Lindsay Maxsted and Peter King arrived at Sydney’s ICC on ...

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How long can EM satisfy yield-hungry investors?

Emerging markets have quickly become one of the only pockets left for investors to find yield. But how long can these growing economies continue to ...

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Westpac: ‘We don’t know what happened’

Westpac chairman Lindsay Maxsted was in duck and cover mode as shareholders savaged the bank at its AGM, but at the end of the day it was business as ...

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Cracks beginning to spread in leveraged credit markets

The chase for yield is driving investors into riskier assets in order to secure a return. But some pockets of the credit market are looking ...

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DWS wins $3.5bn ANZ Private mandate

Global asset manager DWS Group has scored a $3.5 billion (€2.2 billion) mandate by ANZ Private to provide tactical asset allocation advisory services ...

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