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FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... and the debt stacked up. "Margin lending had two major elements that were highly problematic. One was that the interest rates to pay back on the loan were usually quite high," he says. "The other issue was, if you're a really high-income earner or have ...

Fewer global equity managers underperform: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... 200 outperformed, creating "a relatively less favourable environment for stock picking". In the six months, liquidation rates remained moderate across all fund categories at an average of 2%. Fund liquidation has stabilised among Australian equity A-REITs ...

Private and public markets almost interchangeable: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... we've seen volatility in the public market, whether it's during COVID [or other shocking events], when interest rates were sharply higher, private credit stepped in and has proven itself as the alternative funding venue for issuers and sponsors," ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... advice. On the benefit side, though, Davis sees most state-of-the-art GenAI models in an enterprise system delivering accuracy rates of about 80%. Among financial services institutions, he also finds many using AI to strategically transition and upgrade ...

Investors want regulatory clarity on digital assets: Binance

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... a hedge, or a digital counterpart to gold, amid rising geopolitical uncertainty, inflation concerns and falling interest rates. This bullish sentiment has led to half of the surveyed users (49.4%) planning to increase their holdings and purchase additional ...

AXA IM Alts expands affordable housing strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
... by strong thematic tailwinds including record population growth, constrained housing supply and persistently low vacancy rates, this acquisition reflects our conviction in the long-term opportunity for residential as an institutional sector in Australia ...

IML debuts income-focused ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
... rely on. "It's becoming harder and harder for people to get consistent income to fund their retirements with interest rates and ASX dividend yields falling (particularly for banks and resources sectors), and bank hybrids being phased out," he said. ...

Inflation hits highest level in over a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... annual trimmed mean measure of inflation from the monthly CPI reports also once again justifies the RBA decision not to cut rates in July and instead wait for evidence of easing inflation in the more reliable quarterly report later that month." Bassanese ...

CBA appoints head of Australian economics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
... strategist since late 2014. Adam Donaldson has been appointed to the newly created position as head of market strategy and rates research, joining from CBA's Global Markets team. Donaldson will be responsible for developing and communicating integrated ...

Grattan calls for large scale tax reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... for similar incomes, the amount of tax the top 5% pay differs widely. "People on very high incomes can end up facing lower rates than those on far lower incomes," she said. "About half of this effect comes from the very generous tax discount for income ...