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Macquarie cops US$80m from SEC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... Furthermore, MIMBT tried to minimise losses to redeeming investors by arranging cross trades with affiliated accounts, rather than selling the overvalued CMOs to the market. In one example, MIMBT executed 465 internal cross trades between a selling account ...

Super for housing to exacerbate affordability crisis: Eslake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... for housing that they would otherwise be able to has resulted in more expensive housing - benefiting existing homeowners rather than boosting overall home ownership rates. "In the light of that evidence, it is incontrovertible that allowing prospective ...

Federal Reserve rate cuts beckon

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... election - which could be perceived as influencing the outcome. However, she expects the Fed to opt for a 25-basis point cut rather than 50, noting that data and commentary from officials align more with a smaller reduction. "The reason to start cutting ...

Pensioners to pay more under aged care reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... pay $3.30, Wells said. At the same time, new funding will be made available to help elderly people stay at home longer, rather than enter residential care. This will come in the form of a new home care assistance program called Support at Home, which ...

Future Fund restructures investment leadership

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... wealth fund for Blue Owl Capital. Her replacement is yet to be announced. Samild said the new structure was an evolution rather than a revolution, noting that as the world is changing investors need to adapt their resources to meet the challenges and ...

Genetic test results to no longer hinder life cover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
... reform will provide certainty to consumers and allow Australians to make genetic testing decisions based on their health rather than fears of financial discrimination." A 2017 paper from the Actuaries Institute found even a slight increase in the number ...

Acadian AM launches two new credit strategies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024
... "Research shows that investors are well-served to have an allocation to government bonds, corporate bonds, and equities, rather than focusing on one asset class or a duo of asset classes," Richardson said. Both the Global High Yield and US Investment ...

Sequoia ends FY24 with 350 advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... advisers to the stable but lost 56, most of whom were from "non-economic practices who closed or merged their businesses rather than leaving us to join a competitor," chief executive and managing director Garry Crole said. Advisers oversaw $12 billion ...

Economists hit back at RBA guidance

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
... agreed that interest rates were likely to come down and added that more should be done by the government to ease inflation, rather than the RBA. "Tighter fiscal policy in the form of tax hikes and spending cuts or maybe a 1% super levy on everyone would ...

BUSSQ fights back against regulatory imposition

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... savings are well cared for, but if APRA deems further review is necessary, it should exercise its own regulatory powers rather than rely on an independent report based on a single person's view of these matters. "Any review should be conducted by ...