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Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Investors have head into the New Year with many of the same concerns they had at the start of 2024, with interest rates and inflation to dominate once again. Last November, RBA governor Michele Bullock indicated the central bank views its settings as ...

Chalmers defends budget deficits in MYEFO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has called his government's mid-year economic fiscal outlook (MYEFO) a "responsible set of books" despite major budget deficits likely to continue for a decade. The MYEFO forecasted a budget deficit of $26.9 billion for 2024-25 ...

2025 economic outlook 'threatening': AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
AMP chief economist Shane Oliver has shared his "worry list" for 2025, outlining the risk of recession, trade wars and geopolitical turmoil. Oliver said just as with 2024, the list of concerns for investors heading into 2025 is long, and "even more ...

Magellan warns of staggering sovereign debt

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
The unrelenting rise in sovereign debt could adversely impact investment markets, according to Magellan Financial Group, particularly as global public debt is expected to exceed US$100 trillion by the end of this year. Magellan warns that in many parts ...

Retail super funds spend big on advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
Retail superannuation offerings from AMP, Macquarie, and HUB24 spend big on external financial advisers, while industry funds prefer to invest in their own advisers and intra-fund advice, new APRA data reveals. APRA's recently published data based ...

Cbus rolls out Advice Essentials Plus

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024
Cbus Super has launched its new financial advice offering, Advice Essentials Plus, which is a step up from its intra-fund advice service. Advice Essentials Plus is the third option on Cbus's financial advice menu, which currently comprises Advice ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
The controversial $370 billion pact between the US, Australia, and the UK, or 'AUKUS', is being sold as a boon for the economy and nation-building exercise that will amplify defence capabilities and strengthen regional security. But is it all ...

Harris vs Trump: Key economic policy differences

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2024
MLC senior economist Bob Cunneen has said the US budget deficit is expected to soar over the next 10 years no matter who wins the upcoming US presidential election. Cunneen said the US people will once again "be making profound choices" come November ...

Labor delivers another budget surplus, but productivity stalls

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
The final budget outcome for 2023/24 came in as a surplus of $15.8 billion - or 0.6% of GDP - for the underlying cash balance - an improvement of $6.5 billion on the previous estimates. The better-than-expected outcome was driven mainly by the payments ...

Retirement calculators 'can't be counted on': SCA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
While most superannuation funds opine that retirement calculators are key to helping members, research from Super Consumers Australia (SCA) has found they often fail to produce reasonable results. The consumer advocate reviewed the country's largest ...