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Msquared Capital secures $150m warehouse facility with Australian bank

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... construction, rural or vacant land, and specialised securities. As of April 30, the fund held 43 investments with a weighted average Loan-to-Value Ratio of 56.16%.

Inheritance dissatisfaction an advice opportunity: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... inheritances and succession planning. The research highlights that inherited money often sits dormant or underutilised. On average, only 22% of inherited capital is invested in mutual funds and 11% in a pension fund. In Australia, wealth holders invest ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... told Financial Standard. This is typically because in a large cap portfolio there are five or six businesses that will average out the volatility of others. In small caps, only one or two businesses will do this. Sheriden saw investors turn away from ...

ECB drops interest rates by 0.25%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... currently sits around the 2% medium-term target. Revising earlier estimates, the ECB now expects headline inflation to average 2% in 2025, 1.6% in 2026 and 2% in 2027. "The downward revisions compared with the March projections, by 0.3 percentage points ...

Australia's billionaire boom branded 'morally wrong' by Oxfam

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... of Australian billionaires have more than doubled over the past decade, accumulating wealth at $137 million per day on average - $95,000 per minute, according to Oxfam Australia. Its acting chief executive Christina Muli described this as "morally wrong." ...

Soul Patts merges to create new $14bn company

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... represents a 10.1% premium to the last closing price of $27.51 on May 30, an 11.9% premium to the one-month volume-weighted average (VWAP) price of $27.07, a 21.9% premium to the three-month VWAP of $24.84, and a 16.6% premium to Brickworks' post-tax ...

ART pinged by ASIC over misleading returns data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2025
... this had dropped to 8.1%. ASIC said the use of "superseded and inaccurate data" gave consumers "the impression that the average performance of the option over the past 10 years was better than it was." The information was provided via the Super Savings ...

Responsible investing buoyed by instos: RIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
... reflects the increase in the number of investment managers implementing responsible investment strategies and the rise in the average AUM allocated to these strategies. During the period, a record 291 investment managers are now actively engaged in responsible ...

Centuria divests three industrial assets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
Centuria Capital has divested three industrial assets in Southeast Queensland at an average sales premium of 25%. The real estate funds manager said it capitalised on strong investment demand for industrial assets, benefiting from tailwinds created ...

Aware Super cuts fees for retiree members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... annual admin fee on a retirement account is dropping to $1300, down from $1500. This could equate to a 25% cut or, for the average retiree member, a decrease of $225 in the first year, the fund outlined. Members who open a retirement income account may ...