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Australian Ethical loses super chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... organisation's national director for Serbia and Montenegro from 1999 to 2003. He was also engaged with World Vision's Syria crisis response and worked in Serbia and Montenegro for over three years in the aftermath of the Kosovo crisis. He also ...

CPI nears RBA's target range, but rate cut remains in doubt: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... depend on when governments wind back the electricity subsidies and rent assistance that are "mitigating" the cost-of-living crisis. However, the RBA is forecasting inflation will spill over its target range once state and federal governments pull back ...

BlackRock loses senior executive touted as Fink's successor

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... Advisory division (FMA) - which advises clients on complex financial matters. Interestingly, during the Global Financial Crisis, the FMA was called upon to provide emergency support to governments and financial institutions. Before BlackRock, Wiedman ...

Sue Brake joins NZ Super, Lisa Gray departs VFMC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... investment performance and capability was critical to surviving an unpredictable future. And while funds typically have crisis management strategies in place, she reckoned that most had not devised plans specifically for investment and capital markets. ...

The productivity bubble has burst: Productivity Commission

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... entrepreneurial instincts and create or buy businesses. Getting more young people into business... will help boost our productivity crisis and can only be a good thing for the economy in the long-run."

IFM urges investment in housing, hires former Dexus chief

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... on the table. There's a genuine opportunity to harness Australia's superannuation savings to help solve our housing crisis," Hayhurst said. "The alternative - a future of deepening housing insecurity and social instability - is simply unthinkable." ...

Cost-of-living worries drain retirement confidence: MFS

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2024
Most Australians will not be able to retire at the age they want as managing finances amid the cost-of-living crisis dampens their confidence, a survey from MFS Investment Management found. Only 23% of more than 1000 participants canvassed are confident ...

World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... and direct and indirect conflict, increase the downside risk to future growth. At the same time, action on the climate crisis is stalling, which Frontier said raises risks for investors, and the world more broadly. The report noted carbon emissions continue ...

Link between super and banking major priority in 2025: APRA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024
... McCarthy Hockey said the issue of operational risk is also closely related to the financial system's readiness to withstand a crisis. She said APRA is concerned over entities' capability to proactively manage the risks that arise from operating a business ...

Magellan warns of staggering sovereign debt

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... national debt has been rising since the 1980s. In 2010, following the government's response to the Global Financial Crisis, it first exceeded 90% as a percentage of GDP - the level identified by academics Reinhart and Rogoff as associated with a ...