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RBA delivers 'cautious' cut, road ahead unclear

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
... quick cutting cycle. "A range of indicators suggest that labour market conditions remain tight and, in fact, tightened a little further in late 2024," RBA governor Michele Bullock said. "Furthermore, productivity growth has not picked up, which implies ...

Why the RBA should not cut rates

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... pressures," she said. "For me, I think we would just hold here, just for another three months, get one more round of data, get a little bit more of a read on the labor market, a little bit more confidence that [the RBA] has really done enough. Policy ...

Our results were strong: Alexis George

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
... looking for anything at the moment," but noted that if assets came to market, "we'd have a look." "We could also think of little things like bolt-on capability. We know technology is increasingly important, there might be something there, but nothing ...

Industry fund insurance bungle adds fuel to mounting outrage

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025
... "Despite their statutory obligations, my experience - and anecdotally, the experience of colleagues - is funds do very little to assist or advocate to the insurer for their members," O'Neill told Financial Standard. "Super funds do absolutely nothing ...

Cbus faces fresh investigation over fund expenditure practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
... raised in a recent prudential review and an independent expert report by Deloitte, published last November - which found little evidence that Cbus' relationship with the CFMEU was in members' best financial interests and flagged weaknesses in ...

Government to scrap advisers' approved qualifications list

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025
... confusion" as many believed that being on the ASIC Financial Advisers Register suffices. The new registration requirement is "a little bit more comprehensive," he said. "And it includes the requirement to provide a declaration that you're a fit and ...

AustralianSuper welcomes AI tech competition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2025
... alone," Gleeson said. "The US market has become reliant on big tech to drive returns in the last few years. It's perhaps a little early to call an end to the AI market narrative, but investors should be mindful that the US market is far broader than ...

WA best performing state, but economic growth lags

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... Additionally, Queensland is now the leader on annual growth rates - on an aggregate basis - across all economic metrics. "There is little to separate the commodities and tourism-heavy states, with Queensland ranked first or second on five of the eight ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... 'buts' in there. One, is a lot of it is also fuelled by a lot of fiscal monetary stimulus, which drives inflation a little bit. And I think that geopolitics is very complicated. It's scary. It's complicated - how we're going to deal ...

Investors should avoid overvalued US sectors: Talaria

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... starting valuations. "In uncertain markets, resilience and diversification are key, and at today's valuations, there is little room for error," Selby-Smith said. "Everyone assumes that things like leverage, scale, and disruption bring opportunity. In ...