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

Search Results

Showing 1011 - 1020 of 19405 results for "One"

Impact investors need instos, governments to scale: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... not going at the scale required right now," she told the Institutional investors: Investing in an era of turbulence panel. One of the reasons, Halpern said, is when impact investors speak to institutional investors they tend to come with a bias, such ...

Inflation slows, but for how long?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... unchanged on the likely cadence of no further rate cuts until later in the year and the rate-cutting cycle to be a shallow one overall."

Investors warned to sell hybrids before phase out

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... in December 2024, in a move it said would simplify and improve the effectiveness of bank capital in a crisis. The move was one of several changes APRA introduced in response to lessons from 2023's overseas banking turmoil where several US and European ...

Chalmers boosts Help to Buy scheme, construction sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... with indexation, the maximum rates of rent assistance are 45% higher since the government came to office, benefitting around one million households," he said. To combat homeless, the government will provide $9.3 billion to states and territories to spend ...

New tax cuts for every Australian 'a complete joke': UNSW

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... Medicare levy rate. The government will also extend energy bill relief until the end of the year for every household and around one million small businesses. It will provide an additional $1.8 billion in payments, adding to the nearly $5 billion in support ...

Non-compete, restraint clauses to be outlawed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... capping workers' pay and conditions without their knowledge or consent. Findings from the e61 Institute last year show about one in five firms planned to increase their use of non-competes. Of firms already using them and 'no-poach' clauses, 80% are ...

DBFO reforms package 'pretty disappointing': FAAA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... the reality is that super funds generally don't hold much of this information on their members," Abood said. "It's one of the most important and highest-cost areas where a professional adviser adds value - by helping a consumer pull together ...

Sliver of Aussie global equity managers beat index: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
Just 15% of active Australian global equity fund managers outperformed the benchmark, making 2024 one of the worst years for performance, the latest SPIVA Scorecard shows. Last year saw 85% of active global equity funds struggle to keep pace over the ...

What to expect in the 2025 Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... election in 2022. "There will be a deficit, but it will be a smaller deficit than what we inherited - substantially smaller. One of the defining themes, not just of this Budget but the whole set of four Budgets, is that we have helped engineer a $200 ...

New impact fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... Cambodia and Indonesia, delivering returns on par with cash deposit rates at Australian banks, the not-for-profit said. "With one billion women worldwide having no access to financial services, it tackled the barriers many women-led businesses face when ...