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QIC reports $9bn record earnings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
... issuance of a domestic bond to be used for Queensland Titles Registry regearing. Despite challenging conditions for capital raising and valuations, Rampa said these did not deter QIC from growing its investor base, broadening existing client partnerships ...

CFMG Capital raises for $26m Brisbane project

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2024
The Queensland-based fund manager has launched a capital raising to fund development of a recently acquired site at Rochedale, south of Brisbane. The 3.37ha site is situated on Farley Road and will be developed into a 27-lot gated community, with prices ...

Australians living through protracted period of economic misery: CEDA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
... income on the essentials of daily life," Dillon said. "Unfortunately, Bullock's only tool to address this challenge - raising interest rates - also inflicts pain." Dillon said that while the index saw a recent bump due to creeping unemployment amid slowing ...

Court freezes assets of company director

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... regulator suspects that the funds used for gambling were sourced from investments made by investors in these businesses, raising concerns that these funds may have been misappropriated. Federal Court judge David Yates noted that there was evidence of ...

Fed cut will not move the dial for RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... market. "The Australian circumstance is perhaps no coincidence given that the RBA has been less aggressive than the Fed in raising the policy rate to tackle inflation. "The flip side is that it might need to exercise a little more patience when it comes ...

China to raise retirement age from 2025

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
For the first time since the 1970s, China will begin "gradually raising" the national retirement age from next year as it looks to stretch a dwindling pension budget further to sustain its ageing population. The country has approved proposals to raise ...

WAM Active returns 30%, beats indices

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
Listed investment company (LIC) WAM Active (WAA) returned nearly 30% p.a. to unitholders, trumping its benchmarks in the last financial year. WAA beat its reference indices S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index by 13.3% and the Bloomberg AusBond ...

Super on parental leave bill hits parliament

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024
... their male counterparts. "A big part of that is explained by women taking breaks from the paid workforce while they're raising children and then not earning super. This bill is a significant win in redressing the inequity of missing out on super ...

Qualitas shines in FY24, Charter Hall contracts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2024
... has been a challenging backdrop for the group to navigate as fund returns, asset valuations, transactional activity and raising new equity capital have all proven difficult," he said. The office sector rout wiped $1.8 billion off the Dexus Funds Management ...

Zenith increases defensive investment as recession risk looms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2024
... are still growing. We still believe the US economy remains on a soft-landing path, which is an outcome of central banks raising interest rates just enough to bring down inflation to their target levels, without causing a major recession or meaningful ...