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Inflation hits 3.8% in October

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), beating market expectations of 3.6%. The largest contributors to annual inflation were housing (+5.9%), clothing and footwear (5.4%), education (5.4%), food and non-alcoholic beverages (+3.2%), and recreation and ...

Quay Global lists two active ETFs

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
... securities on exchanges globally. They offer exposure to retail, office and residential sectors, as well as aged care, student housing, data centres and storage facilities. Typically holding between 20 to 40 securities, portfolio income is mostly generated ...

IMF tells Chalmers to curb spending

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2025
... productivity in Australia. "We've made substantial progress on productivity reform since our roundtable in August, across housing, environmental approvals, better regulation, artificial intelligence, and simplifying trade, with more underway," Chalmers ...

The Big Short's Michael Burry shutters fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2025
... talent in the field of investment and the most prodigious thinker I have ever encountered." Burry's bet against the US housing market in the lead up to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was made famous in the book The Big Short and thereafter the ...

Aware Super, Barings spin-off BTR portfolio

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025
... Barings head of Asia Pacific real estate Alastair Wright said the new identity will focus on delivering "high quality" housing at competitive rates. "Our aim with WeAreLiving is to deliver quality rental stock where it is needed most. Aware Super has ...

Super performance test, DBFO reforms coming: Government

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2025
... to refine and strengthen it, to make sure it isn't creating unnecessary obstacles to investment in key areas like housing and the energy transformation." Chalmers said Treasury has set up a technical working group which is currently working on what ...

Future Fund returns top $200bn since inception

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2025
... investment team also oversees seven other funds, including the Medical Research Future Fund, DisabilityCare Australia Fund and Housing Australia Future Fund. Medical Research Future Fund had $24.8 billion in funds under management (FUM) and returned ...

Housing Australia Future Fund under audit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
The government's Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) is being audited by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), Auditor-General Caralee McLiesh has confirmed in a letter to Senator Andrew Bragg. In addition, McLiesh said the ANAO is also ...

Kenya to establish sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... strategic infrastructure investments, the Kenyan treasury said this may include but is not limited to agriculture, transport, housing, energy, water, and education and health investments. It will be funded through a variety of revenue channels, including ...

First Guardian shaves $286m off Praemium FUA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... $667 million excluding OneVue. Spectrum was the "standout" performer, recording net inflows of $299 million. It is now housing $13.6 billion in FUA. Praemium SMA also recorded net inflows of $237 million over the same period, lifting FUA to $13.6 billion ...