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2 INVESTMENT CLIMATE Over the past 7 years, the economic climate in Australia has been impacted by a number of global factors. Key changes were: first the Global Financial Crisis or « GFC » (2008) when the US financial sector collapsed, which resulted in a global downturn, with many country economies, sectors and companies being significantly impacted (even though Australia fared overall much better than most countries partly due to its strong banking system and resources sector). While Europe and the US went into a prolonged downturn, the impact was short-lived in Australia, where a post-GFC growth (2009-2012) followed with a mining boom for resources companies, driven by strong China demand (to fuel their construction sector), but more recently a more subdued market (since 2012), with ongoing economic and employment challenges in Europe impacting global growth, and in turn lower growth in China resulting in lower commodity prices. In addition, in Australia, a weakening of the currency and the political uncertainty resulting from successive government negatively impacted business and consumer confidence, and in turn the domestic economy. The property market still benefited from population growth, low interest rates and demand from Asian investors in recent years, but more recently, price growth in some areas started to reduce. INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN THE PAST 7 YEARS 2007- During the first signs of the GFC, doubts about the value of “security - backed assets” caused banks to become less willing to lend to each other and to save up their cash holdings. Because of this, interest rates in financial and credit markets increased and parts of these markets started to crash. Stock markets took longer to be affected, with prices continuing to rise until late 2007, even when bank share prices started to decline. From its peak in November 2007 to the lows reached a few months later, the local market declined by 54 per cent. 2008- The GFC reached its peak in 2008, when the stability of the global financial system was uncertain, and many parts of the investment community froze completely, as many investors became reluctant to take the risk that could leave them broke and in debt. By December 2008, the GFC was starting to affect individuals and households, causing changes in consumer confidence, employment, and income and expenditure patterns. The markets’ uncertainty meant the flow of finance cut off completely. Governments and central banks introduced large reductions in policy interest rates, guarantees of bank deposits and bank debt issuance, and governments helped over troubled financial situations, in efforts to recover from the financial crisis. It was a very difficult time to invest and many focused on low return safer investments or gold. While Australia was affected because of the economic exchanges with other parts of the world through its imports and exports, thanks to its strong banking and resources sectors, the impact was going to be less than in the US or Europe. 2009- Although market conditions slowly recovered during the course of 2009, there was a large decline in stock prices, which reduced the wealth of Australian households by nearly 10 per cent by March 2009. Later, share markets recovered over half of their decline, growth in the economy slowed to around half a per cent and the unemployment rate had risen by nearly two percentage points to around 5¾ per cent by
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