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Family offices look to infrastructure for alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Family offices are increasingly allocating to infrastructure and shunning more risky alternatives such as venture capital and hedge funds, a new BlackRock report shows. Infrastructure will be a pivotal alpha-generating strategy for family offices this ...

No longer an accumulation game: ART

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
Addressing the crowd at the International Congress of Actuaries 2023, Australian Retirement Trust (ART) strategist, asset and liability management Kathryn Spragg said the super system needs alternative measures to start looking at retirement products. ...

Risk of recession growing: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
... AMP chief economist Shane Oliver says the risk of recession is rising alongside the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) rate increases. Earlier in the week, the Australian share market rallied following the decision by US lawmakers to raise the debt ...

Inflation rises to 6.8%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) has jumped from 6.3% to 6.8%, adding to theories Australians could be in for another rate hike. The latest CPI numbers, released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), exceeded economist predictions of ...

It's painful, but it's working: Lowe

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
Reflecting on the board's decision to increase the cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.85% last month, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Philip Lowe says so far, the strategy is working. Lowe told the Senate economics committee this morning that ...

BT upgrades platform functionality

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
... "BT is also focused on enhancing the security features on BT Panorama, to manage risks related to the increasing cybercrime rate in Australia," she said. A recent upgrade enabled support teams to source information relating to social security. "Advisers ...

Italian private credit fund brings unique offering down under

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2023
... Muzinich's parallel lending strategy launched in 2018, invests predominately in private European senior secured, floating rate loans. The aim, according to Muzinich co-head of parallel lending and chief data scientist Gianluca Oricchio, is to capture ...

Aware Super bolsters strategy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
Aware Super has expanded its investment strategy team with the hire of four new specialists and has set up a new investment risk division. Two new hires will play a founding role in a new investment risk team, with the other two supplementing the macro ...

Brookfield looks to enter local BTR space

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023
Brookfield is planning its first Australian build-to-rent project, lodging a development application for a site in Brisbane. The project, to be built at Portside Wharf, includes 560 apartments of varying size just six kilometres out of the Brisbane ...

Investors flock to conservative ETFs: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2023
... "What's interesting as well is that, because banks haven't increased cash deposit rates at anywhere near the same rate as interest rates, there's a lot more interest in investment type products that give you access to cash," he said. "By ...