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Resilient job market reduces rate cut probability: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... (ABS) data shows. "Despite employment falling by 2000 people this month, it's up 2.3% compared to May 2024, which is stronger than the pre-pandemic, 10-year average annual growth of 1.7%," ABS head of labour statistics Sean Crick said. "This fall in ...

Investor optimism premature, fund flows in firing line

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... market share lost to ETFs and industry funds." "Most deliver only average peer-relative returns. Even GQG - despite a stronger long-term track record-faces near-term challenges, demonstrating the difficulty to consistently outperform. Competition remains ...

Super funds to take stock of information security controls

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... information security controls, which must include evaluating the effectiveness of authentication controls and whether stronger controls are required. APRA said it expects multi-factor authentication (MFA) or equivalent controls for all high-risk activities ...

ECB drops interest rates by 0.25%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... projections, by 0.3 percentage points for both 2025 and 2026, mainly reflect lower assumptions for energy prices and a stronger euro," said the Governing Council, which oversees monetary policy. Trade tensions sparked by Liberation Day, however, could ...

Private credit market has lenders sweating

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... concern among the finance sector. Almost half of all lenders surveyed believe that the private lending market requires stronger oversight and tighter regulation, while more than two-in-three respondents said they had a level of concern about the size ...

Soul Patts merges to create new $14bn company

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... long-term value for shareholders. However, we believe the combined business will be very well diversified and in an even stronger position to deliver enduring value..." Brickworks chief executive Mark Ellenor, meanwhile, said the company has evolved ...

Aware Super cuts fees for retiree members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... delivering real benefits for all our members, including lower costs, better services, more personalised advice and a stronger fund overall." Aware Super said the change sees its fees now $600 less than the industry average and will save retirees about ...

Age-based super strategies could add thousands to retirement savings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... Russell Investments said. The firm said helping individuals set a clear retirement income goal provides the foundation for "stronger engagement and smarter decisions" around contributions, investments, and retirement timing. It added that super funds ...

Canadian Securities Exchange to acquire National Stock Exchange of Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... Issuers and investors in Australia are keen to see a dynamic alternative to the larger, legacy incumbent," he said. "A stronger balance sheet enables NSX to expand our product offering, sharpen our customer focus, and provide Australian companies, brokers ...

Tariffs were never the answer: Experts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... with China, as for who holds the strongest hand, Sinodinos said: "I would say in the longer-run sense, the US has the stronger hand, but China have played their hand very well in this current situation and Xi Jinping would have come out of this feeling ...