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Commercial real estate optimism ticks up

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
... strategies. "While we are still going through a period of subdued growth, corporate occupiers are starting to look ahead to the economy picking up in the second half of the year. Alongside this, they are increasingly ready to implement changes to workplace ...

Powell backflips on rates pushing back RBA cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2024
... is becoming more apparent and this disparity between expectation and reality could create increased instability in the economy. "From many perspectives, it seems the economy has been guided successfully into a soft landing, the question is whether we're ...

Government introduces company merger overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
Australia's merger rules will be reformed in a bid to boost competition and productivity in the economy. Treasurer Jim Chalmers and assistant minister for competition, charities, and treasury Andrew Leigh jointly stated that mergers will be approved ...

Investment managers embracing AI: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... concentration. Interestingly, over half of the managers (56%) believe that AI will contribute to disinflationary forces in the economy, as productivity, automation, and competition impacts become more widespread. There is also uncertainty surrounding ...

Threats outside the Australian financial system build: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... have a high degree of resilience. Banks are well prepared to handle the increase in loan losses expected to occur as the economy slows in response to past interest rate rises and budget pressures and risks to financial stability posed by the non-bank ...

Why this fundie sees the economy making a hard landing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... ahead of the 2000 post-tech bubble. The biggest clue on the direction of consumer health and spending, and therefore the economy, according to Birtles, is savings rate. "Australian consumers had excess savings through Covid, and they had built up quite ...

Chalmers expected to deliver Budget surplus

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... savings, leading to a cumulative improvement of $211.4 billion in the underlying cash balance over the next five years. The economy is expected to expand by only 1.75% in 2023-24, before regaining momentum in 2024-25 as improving real incomes growth ...

Listed companies drive economy's momentum: ABDO

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
Australian companies continue to defy odds and beat analysts' expectations to help keep the economy on its resilience streak. Perennial Partners lead portfolio manager Stephen Bruce, who presented at the Advisers Big Day Out (ABDO) Capital Cities in ...

Economists react to latest RBA rate decision

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... regard it notes that inflation remains high, services inflation remains a concern with continuing excess demand in the economy, wages growth is consistent with the inflation target but this assumes productivity picks up further and right now unit labour ...

AustralianSuper to deploy £8 billion in the UK

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2024
... debt is forecast to fall, and - with thanks to smart investors like AustralianSuper - we're on course to grow the economy," Sunak said. Meanwhile, minister for investment Dominic Johnson said AustralianSuper's ongoing commitment shows the strong ...