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Super members switching options amid uncertainty

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
... investments. "A lot of people are looking for less volatility due to macro-economic factors such as inflation and a looming recession," she said. "People don't want to take unnecessary risk when it comes to their retirement savings." In August, a Finder ...

Top concerns of the rich revealed: Survey

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2022
... Office Survey from Citi Private Bank's Family Office Group highlights major concerns around inflation, possible recession and geopolitical uncertainty. The 2022 Family Office Survey was completed by 126 family offices. Of the respondents, 60% were ...

Apostle launches high yield credit fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2022
... better risk adjusted returns over the medium-to-long-term. This leaves us well positioned as we face a likely global recession." The fund is priced daily, liquid and hedged in Australian dollars, Apostle concluded.

Norwegian wealth fund records $250bn loss

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... in demand during the pandemic for digital advertising, e-commerce and semiconductors has normalised. Growing fears of recession have also impacted particularly on tech stocks," the fund's report reads. "Consumer discretionary were the second-weakest ...

QIC braces against recession risks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
... attuned to the risks that could arise, particularly if we see stagflation," she said. Hill is looking ahead for signs of recession in the US; "There is a debate over whether the US is already in recession or going into recession, and if it does, will ...

Value investing a likely winner: Maple-Brown

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
... assumptions that reshoring back to the West would cause higher prices and that the US economy is heading for a major recession. Further, on markets suffering a valuation de-rating from fear of persistent high interest rates, Insync noted that this isn't ...

US enters recession - or does it?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... decreased for the second consecutive quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, but don't call it a recession. GDP decreased at an annual rate of 0.9% in Q2, this follows the 1.6% retracement in Q1. "The decrease in real GDP reflected ...

Federal Reserve delivers 0.75bp rate rise

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022
... explicit guidance on the size of the next rate move," Miller said. "Powell said that he did not believe the economy was in recession, citing a 'very strong labour market' as evidence. "The accompanying Statement from the FOMC also implied that Federal ...

Equities challenged but opportunities are there

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022
... down the track. It's not an easy task, charting a course between vanquishing inflation without tipping the economy into recession, he said. During a tightening cycle when the world is confronting inflation -which is at its highest level in 40 odd years ...

CPI rises, IMF lowers global outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
... course until inflation is tamed. Aside from the IMF announcement, a White House statement has quashed the traditional recession evaluation method of two consecutive quarters of falling GDP - just one week before GDP data is released. The Biden Administration ...