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What Yarra Capital is buying in the dip

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... gains. "The good news is that we are about 50% through the adjustment in equity markets and that concerns over excess inflation can now be relegated to history," he said. "Rate cuts are clearly coming in size, and once the early signs appear that the ...

Australia sees jump in zombie companies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... declined from 4.27% in 2022 to 3.02% in 2023. The real estate sector was the most affected by economic instability, inflation, and rising interest rates, while the travel and tourism sector saw a decline in zombie companies due to a post-pandemic recovery. ...

ESSSuper launches Balanced Growth Managed option

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... retirement by delivering stable returns via diversification. It targets moderately high returns of 3.25% above the rate of inflation or 3.75% above the rate of inflation for retirement income stream accounts. For example, if the consumer price index ...

No one immune to cost-of-living pain: ABS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... ranged from 1.2% to 1.4% depending on the spending patterns of different household types - higher than the 1% rise in inflation. "This is the first time since December 2010 that increases in living costs for all household types were higher than the increase ...

RBA on hold: Experts split on 2024 cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... where they are. "But really the best thing we can do, and I've said this before, the best thing we can do is to bring inflation back down to target because we can't let inflation get away." Despite the RBA's sentiment, Commonwealth Bank of Australia ...

Chalmers 'confident but not complacent' on economic prospects

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... outlook for Australia's economy. "We are confident about the Australian economy, we are confident we can continue to see inflation moderate," Chalmers said. "We're confident that we can continue to grow but this is a really important warning against ...

Markets melt down over 'premature' recession fears

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
... University of New South Wales said she isn't anticipating any change to the cash rate this month. "There is a slowdown in inflation and economic activity, and unemployment is creeping up," Dechter said. "Although inflation remains persistently above ...

Pinnacle FUM soars 20%, introduces new boutique

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
... half of FY22 and across FY23, there was something of a recovery, at least in headline market returns, during FY24, as inflation began to stabilise and central bank rhetoric shifted toward base rates moderating (albeit leaving investors guessing as to ...

Russell Investments default option returns up to 12.3%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024
... down as markets become overexuberant." GoalTracker's investment objective for members under 50 is 4.3% return above inflation. The strategic asset allocation for that age group is heavily skewed to Australian equities (42%) and international equities ...

Inflation rises but RBA hike not inevitable

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... annual rise of 3.8% for the June quarter is up from 3.6% in the March quarter. This is the first increase in annual CPI inflation since the December 2022 quarter." State Street Global Advisors APAC economist Krishna Bhimavarapu said the rise in inflation ...