Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 11 - 20 of 8732 results for "Level"

ISPT to divest $250m in super prime assets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
ISPT will bring three super prime assets to market in Sydney and Brisbane, in a move it says demonstrates its optimism in the Australian logistics sector. JLL and CBRE have been appointed to market the assets with an expected price of more than $250 ...

COVID helped to reduce inequality: Productivity Commission

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
New research from the Productivity Commission has revealed changes to income and wealth levels during COVID-19. "The initial pandemic period saw an unprecedented decline in income inequality. The incomes of lower-income households grew rapidly in relative ...

Loomis Sayles brings global bond fund to Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
Loomis Sayles & Company, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has launched its Global Bond Fund for Australian wholesale investors. The fund seeks to provide diversified fixed income opportunities by combining macro themes and a bottom-up approach ...

Price dislocations pave way for active managers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... equity market, by regions, I would still argue that apart from the US, none of the regions is trading at much more expensive level than their historical averages." Financial Standard is the media partner of the 2024 Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers ...

Members' attitude, behaviour key to better engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... inroads into targeted member engagement. "Trustees must develop attitudinal and behavioural understanding at a granular level, to truly support members for the best possible retirement," she said. "Demographic analysis is not enough. Funds must continue ...

Budget 2024: Cost of living relief takes centre stage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
Support will be boosted for Australians facing acute and urgent financial pressures with $138 million to meet sustained high demand for crisis support including emergency relief, food relief and financial support services. Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced ...

'Just do what you say you'll do': ASIC's message to trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... keep pace," she said. "It's 2024. Use your information, use your digital wherewithal in the digital age to do the right level of due diligence, testing and sampling. It's just good governance and good risk management, to make sure that having ...

The unintended consequences of the four-day work week

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
While a minority of organisations have embraced it, the four-day work week potentially has unintended consequences that are inflationary, reduce productivity, and can lead to employee burnout. This is according to some experts who recently spoke at ...

Senior Cbus investment manager exits

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
... structure. "This appointment further strengthens our overall investment capability and continues the strategy to build our level of expertise in-house," the asset owner said at the time. Interestingly, Ferguson's departure comes as Cbus advertises ...

APRA 'continuing to monitor' UniSuper outage

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... their own internal operational vulnerabilities and have plans to mitigate them. From 1 July 2025, they must have the same level of understanding of their most critical third-party service providers - as well as their most critical fourth-party service ...