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Green budgets fatten amid global uncertainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS | TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025

... investment manager Ninety One predicts such innovations will drive growth in decarbonising companies. While higher interest rates have weighed on returns in decarbonisation sectors and clean tech sentiment has been very negative, Ninety One head of sustainable ...

Trump inaugurated as 47th President

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025

... bond yields, investors were predicting a high risk of recession in the US, and markets were betting on official interest rates falling to 2.8% by early 2026. That number has lifted to about 4%. Bond markets have gone from anticipating perhaps nine interest ...

Unemployment edges up despite jobs added

ELIZA BAVIN | THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025

... strength in the labour market remains a major reason why the Reserve Bank of Australia should not hurry into cutting interest rates anytime soon," Bassanese said. "The fact remains that employment is still booming, and unemployment is low, despite continued ...

Australian economy on the up in 2025: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN | FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025

... years during 2024. Vanguard said this improvement will come despite the overhang of sticky inflation and elevated interest rates. Additionally, it predicts the core inflation rate will fall to 2.5% during 2025, and that the Reserve Bank of Australia's ...

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 ...

Boutique global asset management firms' investment outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN | FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024

... and liquidity suggest a potential inflationary wave. Such a scenario would significantly alter expectations for interest rates, the USD, and asset classes across the board. In any case, CPIs will remain volatile based on energy prices developments," ...

RBA 'paves way' for February rate cut

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024

... tone - giving experts optimism that a cut could be on the horizon early next year. The RBA board noted that higher interest rates have been working to bring demand and supply closer to balance and said, "some of the upside risks to inflation appear to ...

Funds are 'getting back to basics', says report

ANDREW MCKEAN | TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024

... drivers of economic and market outcomes, with close to 60% identifying technological change or equilibrium real interest rates as the key factors shaping their five-10-year investment strategies. Global public funds were also found to be prioritising ...

World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN | FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024

... upward trajectory to historically high levels, with deficits "not expected to narrow soon." It said recent higher interest rates have "materially raised the cost of debt," and while central banks' transition to cutting interest rates, which should start ...

2025 economic outlook 'threatening': AMP

ELIZA BAVIN | THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024

... prices are in a mild downtrend from their 2022 high," he said. Second, central banks are likely to continue cutting interest rates. This is expected to include the RBA where quarterly trimmed mean inflation is likely to soon drop to around 0.6-0.7% qoq ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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