Current resources downturn increasing the appetite of new wave of global challengers forAustralian assets
4 February 2009
The BCG 100 New Global Challengers report says that Australian resource companies will continue to be targeted for major asset deals by some of the up and coming global challengers from rapidly developing economies (RDEs) – especially those from China. MORE
Australian banks fare better than their global counterparts in market value fall
19 February 2009
Living With New Realities, the seventh report in BCG’s annual Creating Value in Banking series, reveals the world’s banks saw their overall market value fall by $US5.5 trillion since the start of the financial crisis – equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP. MORE
Beware bearers of crystal balls and wearers of rose-tinted spectacles
4 May 2009
Newspapers have devoted a huge number of column inches to predictions about the global financial crisis. What will happen next? How bad will it get?” And of course, “When will it be over?” Business lunch conversations are consumed by these questions, looking for morsels of information or an inside track on how Australia's future will unfold. MORE
Australian companies still out-perform global peers: BCG Value Creators Report
25 May 2009
While Australia’s top 100 ASX-listed companies continue to outperform their developed economy peers in creating value for shareholders, the average TSR of Australian companies in the BCG survey plunged by 40 percent in 2008. MORE
Australian fund managers in position of relative strength, near top of growth among 10 biggest markets worldwide
29 July 2009
BCG’s 2009 Global Asset Management Report has found that Australia’s funds management industry was less affected by the global financial crisis than almost every other country in the top 10 markets except Japan. MORE