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November rate cut likely off the table as inflation lifts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
... quarterly movement was electricity costs, which rose by 9%," ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt said. Annual inflation to the September 2025 quarter was 3.2%, up from 2.1% to the June 2025 quarter. "This is the highest annual inflation ...

Kenya to establish sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2025
... its main creditors being the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This was accrued on the back of rising inflation, high interest rates, floods and uncertainty resulting in protests and reduced spending. According to the World Bank, in the ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... Flowing through from pre-retirement to the transition phase and then post-retirement, North cites sequencing, market, inflation, longevity and emotional risks, or SMILE. "Yes, it's a cute acronym but we actually think it's possible for more people ...

Regal, Merricks invest $400m in South Australian infrastructure

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2025
... strongly on a per capita basis. Redlich said there is a demand for multi-strategy income products in the face of ongoing inflation locally and geopolitical uncertainty globally. "Over the past 12 months we have looked at more than 500 credit investment ...

Classic 60/40 approach underdelivers for women retirees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... retirement they invest their savings in a 60/40 strategy and make minimum drawdowns, with all elements adjusted for inflation over time. For the first 10 years, Monash used 25-year rolling mean returns of 5.59% for equities and 1.23% for bonds. The standard ...

New 100% tariffs on China: Another TACO moment?

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2025
... absolutely true that the economic impact of tariffs has been certainly less bad than what many expected, both on activity and inflation, but I think it's early to assume that we haven't seen the worst of it," McCormick said.

Australian economy 'at a crossroads': CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... house price movements, the Australian outlook has strengthened. Yet, he said, the path ahead is finely balanced, as inflation has re-emerged as a risk, jobs growth has slowed, and wage gains have eased, while global risks remain high. On the domestic ...

Retail investors want true hedge fund exposure: Morningstar

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... strategies, according to Morningstar. Retail investors see that hedge funds can truly diversify their portfolios amid rising inflation, higher interest rates and greater market dispersion and volatility. Morningstar found that many have turned to liquid ...

Aussie family office chiefs earn up to US$625k

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2025
... their operations with an increase in reported average operating costs as a percent of FUM. This is not surprising with inflation being a primary driver of salary increases in the sector over the last 12 months," she said. "Pleasingly, we observed higher ...

Australia dominates APAC real estate private credit raisings

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... of loan impairments as the market shifts to a recovery phase," Burston said. "In addition, easing construction cost inflation should enable higher levels of apartment construction across all major cities in both traditional build-to-sell and build-to-rent ...