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RBA hike may come as soon as February

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has shown the nation may be at an inflection point, highlighting the challenges the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will face in setting policy next year. Citi economists have changed their outlook from an assumption ...

Vanguard identifies strongest asset classes for coming decade

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
... policy tailwinds announced since April 2, namely US tax cuts, industrial policy investment incentives and the Federal Reserve joining the chorus of global central banks lowering interest rates," Chronis said. "Australia is insulated somewhat from tariffs ...

RBA opts to keep cash rate on hold

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
At its meeting yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) reached a monetary policy decision to keep the cash rate unchanged at 3.6%. In explaining why, the board warned of possible rate rises in 2026 as it takes a more cautious response to inflationary ...

Nuveen brings global real estate strategy to Australia

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
Nuveen has expanded access of its Global Cities REIT strategy to Australian investors. Investors can access the perpetual-life investment vehicle through the firm's Australian-domiciled feeder fund, Nuveen Global Cities Private Real Estate Fund. It ...

Waning AI optimism, Fed rate cut driving US pullback: UniSuper

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... the US market is driven by the waning optimism on the sustainability of the AI thematic and a rate cut by the Federal Reserve. Colosimo said the market is now questioning the AI play and if there are going to be economic returns to all the capex investment ...

ASX suffers another outage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
... understands there were no issues with clearing or settlement and the outage was just a publication issue. This comes after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and ASIC calling out the exchange numerous times throughout the year for poor practices. In ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... for land that is in areas with high rainfall or the ability to irrigate, which might be from a river or an underground reserve, or even extracting the water and spreading it on the land through different methods. It takes away the risk the rain doesn't ...

T. Rowe and Oak Hill launch flexible credit income fund

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
T. Rowe Price and Oak Hill Advisors (OHA) have launched the Flexible Credit Income Fund AUD (OFLEX AUD), specifically designed for wholesale investors. OFLEX AUD leverages OHA's best ideas, seeking to deliver income by lending primarily to large cap ...

Magellan global equities lead exits amid investigation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... manager in 2018. Previously, he held roles with Morgan Stanley, Aon and UBS. He's also served as an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia. In its most recent note on Magellan, dated November 17, Morningstar said the group is exposed to several ...

APRA stress tests for potential ASX failure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2025
... under fire throughout the year for the CHESS batch settlement failure incident that occurred on 20 December 2024. Both the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and ASIC lambasted the ASX over concerns around its management of operational risk. In March 2025 ...