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Office sector down 8%: MSCI

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
... estimates that the office sector will decline by US$800 billion. "The impact on value could be even stronger if rising interest rates compound it. Similarly, the impact could be stronger if troubled financial institutions decide to more quickly reduce ...

Michele Bullock to be next RBA governor

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
... have changed but the economic outlook is still treacherous as inflation continues to be balanced against rising interest rates. Chalmers acknowledged Australians are still doing it tough. "The government knows that Australians are under the pump right ...

Lowe hands down RBA board shake up

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2023
... outlook," he said. "The board decided that having already increased rates substantially, it was appropriate to hold interest rates steady this month and re-examine the situation next month."

Platforms FUM falls $20bn: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2023
... (4.9%). Plan For Life noted that these results came despite central banks ending an unprecedented era of ultra-low interest rates and moves to normalise monetary policies to get a handle on inflation.

UK pensions tapped to strengthen local startups

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
... £28 billion a year of unfunded spending commitments, as some are suggesting, would entrench inflation and push up interest rates," he said. "These reforms, conversely, unlock capital from the private sector delivering growth not by subsidy, but by increasing ...

Waypoint REIT cops $27.1m devaluation

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2023
... release their annual returns. Adding to the property sector's woes are supply chain problems, however higher interest rates are perhaps the biggest detriment. In June, Charter Hall provided an update on its REIT valuation and said: "The valuations ...

Frontier calls for better unlisted asset valuations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... as redemption periods, Australia's robust response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of rising global interest rates require a unique Australian perspective. In Australia, fund managers often employ a transaction-led valuation process, especially ...

RBA pause short but sweet: Mousina

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023
... sitting at around a 50% chance in the next 12 months. "I think that that's a pretty fair judgement based on how interest rates have gone," she said. "Maybe the economy will prove to be very resilient to interest rate increases, and maybe the consumer ...

Wage increases shouldn't equal rate hikes

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
... inflation dip should prompt a pause, but Conroy remained clear on his view. "This idea that there is a need to push interest rates up higher will simply bring on a recession," he said. "Phil Lowe [just deliberately wants] to give the middle finger to ...

Rising costs bite asset owners

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023
... investors are now facing cost-additive pressures. "This is a real contrast versus the previous decade, when low interest rates, downward pressure on management fees and improved (though still imperfect!) transparency helped considerably to reduce like-for-like ...