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RBA cut expected, but then what?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... Hennessy added that markets are now pricing in a 20% to 30% recession probability - which is down from about 50% to 60% a few months ago. "To me, markets are becoming a bit complacent to some of the downside risks that we still see out there," he said. ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... delivering consistent performance over rolling three-year periods." He said that many of CFS's current managers have "a few more degrees of freedom" than those it's used in the past, whose fishing pond was in very narrow segments of the market ...

Bennelong partners with Allspring for fund launch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
Bennelong Funds Management has partnered with Allspring Global Investments to distribute its global income strategy across Australia and New Zealand. Bennelong expects to launch the Allspring Global Income Fund as a unit trust in June this year, offering ...

Chalmers lays down the law on super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... unrealised gains exists in other parts of the super system. "It's not unique to what we are proposing. It affects very few people. It's still concessional treatment. It's been part of our budget for a little while now. It's been before the ...

Labor vs Liberal: Which government is better for Australian stocks?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
Labor has secured 93 of the 150 seats up for grabs in the House of Representatives, with a few still in doubt - more than Kevin Rudd or Bob Hawke claimed in their maiden election victories - but does this historic win over the Coalition spell bad news ...

US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... some significant headwinds at the moment. Chief among them is a steep decline in private equity distributions over the past few years, following post-pandemic interest rate increases. Distributions to investors from recent vintages of private venture ...

The top-performing (and worst) asset classes of the past year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... table, which charts 17 major asset classes investment returns on an annual basis over the last decade, reveals that there's few reliable themes, except that greater risk tends to be rewarded by greater return. Equity markets, nevertheless, took pole ...

Life insurance premiums edge lower

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
Annual premiums from active life insurance policies fell 1.7% to $16.2 billion in the year to December 2024 - a $300 million decline from the previous year - according to DEXX&R. The market research firm's latest Life Analysis report showed total new ...

Warren Buffett to retire, recommends successor

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... recommendation," Buffett said. However, Buffett flagged that he may still "hang around and could conceivably be useful in a few cases" but Abel will ultimately have the final word in terms of operations, acquisitions and capital deployment and so forth. ...

The top Australian small-cap fund, year after year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... the fund apart isn't just long-term performance, but the rare ability to also outperform in the short term - something few peers manage. Mitchell credited Ophir's consistency to a process that repeatedly identified standout companies early and ...