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Minimum wage to rise 3.5%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... hour. This equates to a before-tax wage of $948 per week, up about $32, or an annual salary of $51,512. Accounting for inflation, which came in at 2.4% at the most recent read, it is a real wage increase of 1.1% - one of the largest awarded by the Fair ...

Retirement confidence highest since 2020: SSGA

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... cannot envision ever being financially secure enough to afford retirement," Shead stressed. "Australians identified inflation, increased cost of living, and medical expenses as the top three barriers negatively impacting their retirement confidence. ...

Commodities 'crucial' for portfolio resilience: QIC

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
... (QIC), commodities are positioned well, underpinned by trends emerging from evolving global dynamics. The return of inflation threats, increasing geopolitical risk and competition, supply chain volatility, and greater demand for diversification remain ...

Cost-of-living, unaffordable advice fuels financial stress: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... living standards. Low unemployment is an opportunity not a risk. Reducing it further will not spark a fresh outbreak of inflation as some have wrongly suggested." Meanwhile, Colonial First State's (CFS) survey of 2250 Australians found one in five ...

Why emotions, cash derail good investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025
... portfolio in the event both stocks and bonds are falling? "That's what 2022 reminded us. Neither stocks nor bonds like inflation and that's when we had positive correlation," she said. In learning the lessons from 2022, Ward recalls the impact ...

Super moves: Future Fund, WTW

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... where he most recently served as a portfolio manager. He managed the debt sector, which included cash, sovereign bonds, inflation-linked bonds, corporate credit, and emerging market debt, in addition to overseeing liquid alternatives. Earlier in his ...

Future Fund bags a piece of Transgrid

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... the $240 billion sovereign wealth fund's risk and return objectives and will help safeguard the portfolio from higher inflation, interest rates, and currency volatility. Future Fund director of infrastructure Peter McCosker, meanwhile, said the investment ...

J.P. MAM slashes recession probability to 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... where the correlation between equity and bonds has been negative. We've moved now to more neutral-to-positive. The inflation scare of 2021-22 saw correlation become positive for bonds and equities. So, we got less diversification. Now, we're ...

Chalmers and Bragg spar over $3m super tax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... an average income throughout their working life will have more than $3 million in super upon retirement when assuming inflation and 3% annual wage growth. The government has maintained that just 0.5% of the population will be impacted.

Alternatives spark 'real' opportunities for HNW advisers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... There are an increasing number of high-net-worth (HNW) investors using alternative assets to diversify, protect against inflation and lessen returns related to the public markets, with Praemium saying advisers should look to capitalise from this trend. ...