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Partners Group promotes local staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... had over ten years of industry experience. Before joining Partners Group, he worked in leveraged finance at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Vaswani's colleague Christopher John, who joined the royalties team from the private equity business late last ...

Legalsuper hunts for CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... as head of portfolio management. He earlier worked at Macquarie and Bankers Trust and spent three years at the Reserve Bank of Australia. In addition to Murray's departure, Symons announced the appointment of Jennifer Abraham as executive manager ...

Unemployment edges up despite jobs added

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... 1.6 percentage points higher than March 2020." Despite the slight uptick in unemployment - something that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would want to see - VanEck portfolio manager Cameron McCormack said an RBA rate cut would still be a tight squeeze. ...

Major climate group suspends operations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... exodus of major asset managers. Most recently, the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZAM) lost Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America. Citi said it had chosen to focus instead on its membership of Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) - a ...

ANZ, Macquarie bring forward rate cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... 2.3% in the 12 months to November 2024, but trimmed mean inflation came in at 3.2% - still tracking above the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) target range of 2-3%. Similarly optimistic about the figures was Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Speaking at a press ...

Australian economy on the up in 2025: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... interest rates. Additionally, it predicts the core inflation rate will fall to 2.5% during 2025, and that the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) cash rate will be lowered to 3.5% from the current 4.35% level by year end. Pointing to Wednesday's Consumer ...

Chalmers boasts inflation data, experts divided

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... 2.3% in the 12 months to November 2024, but trimmed mean inflation came in at 3.2% - still tracking above the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) target range of 2-3%. Speaking at a press conference after the inflation figures were released, Treasurer ...

February rate cut unlikely after inflation data

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
... inflation remains higher than CPI inflation as it removed large price falls for electricity and automotive fuel." The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has said inflation needs to be "sustainably within the 2-3% target range". VanEck head of investments ...

Chalmers unveils new-look RBA boards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
Treasury has appointed two new members to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) monetary policy board as well as announcing who will take on roles on the governance board. This comes after a review of the RBA suggested splitting to board in two ...

RBA 'paves way' for February rate cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) surprised no one by leaving the official cash rate on hold at 4.35% at its final meeting of the year. While this was the ninth consecutive month the central bank has kept the cash rate steady, the decision was met ...