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Australian firms may face 'intense competition': RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... the US may unfold, Australian firms may be collateral damage. "An example of this is the possibility that Australian firms might in time face more intense competition, at home and overseas, from Chinese firms discounting output diverted from US markets," ...

Managed funds should be 'prepared to take less'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... performance fees when things go well, and if they were prepared to take less for themselves and charge a lower fee some of them might be alright," Freeman said. " Some of the numbers that I've seen that some fund managers take out of products when ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... they perform extremely well," however, its returns were "very sporadic" and extremely dependent on market conditions. "They might have one in five years or one in seven years of outperformance," he said. "All their outperformance came from a single year. ...

Chalmers lays down the law on super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... investment. A tax on unrealised gains turns that on its head. It punishes people not for what they've earned, but for what they might earn - and that's a road no country should go down."

Vision Super defends new but 'archaic' policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... quite formal with her. This is not something she has come across before, so when you do it's understandable that someone might take it a little bit to heart," he said. Financial Standard asked Vision Super if it had investigated the claim that a staff ...

Labor vs Liberal: Which government is better for Australian stocks?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... financial crisis which had an enormous bearing on the woeful stock market performance of his tenure." He said a better benchmark might be to compare the performance of the Australian market against global equities. That helps control for broader external ...

'Lunatic' tariffs can directly hit Australia: Academics

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... at the moment, because he's swimming against the market." "In the end, markets have a power all their own. A power I might not say that Trump, in his wacky way, acknowledges," he said. On April 3, Trump slapped a slew of tariffs on goods imported ...

US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... from European nations, Germany in particular - with the change in their fiscal rules - really led investors to believe they might see sales growth in European stocks," he said. A broadly similar story has played out in private markets. The US has been ...

Warren Buffett to retire, recommends successor

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... will ultimately have the final word in terms of operations, acquisitions and capital deployment and so forth. "Whatever it might be, I could be helpful, I believe, in certain respects if we ran into periods of great opportunity... I think that Berkshire ...

No US recession priced in yet: UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... happened, he believes it could be to do with hedge fund activity during the period. "There was some initial speculation that it might have even been the Chinese government selling down - they are the second biggest holders of US debt after Japan. While ...