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Unemployment drops below 4%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... year ago and 2.2 percentage points above the pre-pandemic level. "The recent growth in population has boosted the labour supply as employment has kept up with population growth," Taylor said. Seasonally adjusted monthly hours worked fell marginally in ...

RBA 'paves way' for February rate cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
... be on the horizon early next year. The RBA board noted that higher interest rates have been working to bring demand and supply closer to balance and said, "some of the upside risks to inflation appear to have eased". In addition, IG market analyst Tony ...

Productivity slump threatens asset returns: Shane Oliver

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
The supply-side productivity-enhancing reforms of the Hawke/Keating Labor government, continued by Howard/Costello, have since stalled, leading to a decline in productivity - a key catalyst in the deterioration of living standards, according to AMP ...

World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... China, are shifting globalisation from a unified system to more fragmented blocks. Efforts by both powers to diversify supply chains and secure technological sovereignty are "deepening economic divides." The report said challenges to global frameworks ...

Nuveen raises over $400m for real estate debt strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... parameters and prime assets or projects in sectors that benefit most from Australia's high population growth and limited supply. "Through continued partnerships with likeminded clients, we are excited to continue taking advantage of opportunities ...

Geopolitical tensions create investor opportunity: Franklin Templeton

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... "This shock has driven a rapid acceleration in defense investment, from modernising equipment and training to recalibrating supply chains and boosting domestic industrial production capacity." Catechis said the Russian war on Ukraine, for example, has ...

BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard sued over climate stance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2024
... Vanguard withdrew from the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative in late 2022. "Deliberately and artificially constricting supply increased prices and enabled the investment companies to produce extraordinary revenue gains," the Attorney General's office ...

Inconsistencies abound in Future Fund mandate change: Deloitte

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... dwellings in the short term given that the constraints which are holding back additional development rest largely on the supply side, with high materials costs, a lack of workers, and poor construction sector productivity," Deloitte said. "Like anyone ...

CFS awards equity, infrastructure mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... mega-trends such as the green transition to a lower-carbon world, climate adaption, energy security, the shortening of supply chains and the digitalisation transformation that now includes the AI revolution." ClearBridge's parent company Franklin ...

Adviser suspended over wrongful use of ROAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
A Matrix Planning Solutions adviser is suspended from providing advice for the next three months after failing to supply Statements of Advice (SOAs) where required. Ian Reid, the principal adviser at Temora's A&B Financial Planning, was suspended for ...