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Inflation rises 3% in August

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... Australia (RBA) next week. "Given the recent weakening in employment growth, there was some chance the RBA could have cut rates next week if today's CPI result was remarkably benign - such as if annual trimmed mean inflation eased back toward the 2.1% ...

Australian economy in 'very good place': RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2025
... inflation has fallen substantially since the peak of 7.8% in 2022 and is now within the 2-3% target range. The higher interest rates over that period helped to put downward pressure on inflation and to keep inflation expectations anchored," she said. ...

Age Pension to increase on September 20

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
The Age Pension is increasing tomorrow, while previously frozen deeming rates will rise by 0.5%. From tomorrow, September 20, the Age Pension will increase by $29.70 a fortnight for singles and $44.80 for couples combined. This will see singles receive ...

ASIC issues interim stop orders to La Trobe Financial

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
... small cash and term deposit holdings held to meet cash requirements," ASIC said. "These products are not bank deposits. The rates of return are not guaranteed and are determined by future revenue of the pool of assets that comprise the account, the investment ...

Australia maintains global retirement security ranking: Natixis

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... Australians are fearful for their stability in retirement. Pressures from inflation, the cost of living and higher interest rates are undeniably crunching retirees' wallets and increasing uncertainty on how much they can spend in retirement balances ...

Greece launches new innovation, infrastructure fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... has restored its investment-grade status, posting one of the Eurozone's highest primary surpluses, and now borrows at rates lower than the US. Its economy is forecast to grow 2.3% in 2025, it said. Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ...

Rest invests $390m in US REIT

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... is expected to benefit from one of these megatrends: systemic changes to debt markets," he added. "Inflation and interest rates are likely to stay higher for longer, which increases the attraction for businesses to rent rather than own real estate. We ...

ANZ fined $240m for bond trading, retail misconduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
... Separately, between August 2024 and March 2025, ANZ promoted on its website base variable and bonus fixed introductory interest rates for certain accounts which ASIC alleges were inaccurate. The impacted 56,703 customers, resulting in ANZ failing to ...

AMP settles class action for $120m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
... 2008 to May 2020. The proceedings related to fees charged to members of certain AMP superannuation funds, and the interest rates received, and fees charged, on cash-only fund options. AMP said it would contribute $75 million to the $120 million settlement ...

Retirees unfairly targeted by tax: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
Australians receiving the Age Pension are often subjected to higher marginal tax rates of 60% to 80%, disincentivising them from being more active in the workforce, new research from HESTA suggests. The research said in some extreme cases, these rates ...