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Vanguard rejigs Ethically Conscious options

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2025
... products. Previously, thermal coal, oil, and gas business involvement was identified using industry classifications and reserve ownership. "Prior to the change, oil and gas business involvement was identified using industry classifications which meant ...

War on inflation: Australia vs New Zealand

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
In the battle against inflation, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) took different approaches. Now that inflation has cooled, HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham has examined which approach was better. "At the end ...

RBA 'not committed' to further rate cuts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has confirmed it considered leaving interest rates on hold last month, but ultimately concluded the arguments for a cut were more weighted. However, despite deciding to deliver the interest rate relief, the central ...

Treasury responds to CHESS replacement inquiry

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... Services) Instrument 2024, which entered into force on 14 May 2024. Treasury supported the recommendation that ASIC and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) continue to monitor the current CHESS system. Likewise, of the recommendations Treasury noted ...

Perpetual profits dented after KKR deal goes up in smoke

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
Perpetual's net profit after tax (NPAT) crumbled because of its simplification program, strategic review, and the fallout from its dead KKR deal. Notably, Perpetual's board scrapped the KKR deal earlier this week. However, KKR insists that a ...

ASIC turns up the heat on private markets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... largest portions of Australia-focused private capital fund assets of $65.9 billion and $58.2 billion respectively. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) estimates that the private credit market is worth $40 billion. However, ASIC noted that estimates elsewhere ...

Deflation continues, albeit slowly

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... agreed the data showed positive momentum in keeping inflation down, but the focus needs to be on keeping it within the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) target range of 2-3%. "While market consensus has shifted towards an 80% probability of the next ...

Monetary policy not the only game in town: Brian Redican

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... decisions will have a "much bigger impact" on inflation's direction over the next few years than any moves by Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. "We have no confidence in what Trump is actually going to do. We know the four things he's talking ...

ASIC clearing and settlements powers to curb ASX monopoly

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... safe and effective competition in clearing and/or settlement should a competitor emerge. ASIC co-regulates CS with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), namely over the four CS facilities in the ASX group: two central counterparties - ASX Clear and ASX ...

MLC wary of but not opposed to bitcoin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
... tasked with, amongst other things, evaluating the potential for a 'national digital asset stockpile', akin to America's oil reserve, and proposing a regulatory framework for the issuance and operation of cryptocurrencies," he said. However, Farmer said ...