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Netwealth, Praemium see inflows soar

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... December 31 was $101.6 billion, up 30% for the calendar year. "FUA net inflows were driven by consistently high transition rates from existing financial intermediaries, and strong conversion rates from the company's new business pipeline across all ...

Australian Ethical 'cautious' on valuations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... long term returns. " Australian Ethical noted other big factors influencing markets over the last 12 months were interest rates, particularly in the US where a rotation to lower interest rates resulted in investors looking to put more money into share ...

Green budgets fatten amid global uncertainty

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... investment manager Ninety One predicts such innovations will drive growth in decarbonising companies. While higher interest rates have weighed on returns in decarbonisation sectors and clean tech sentiment has been very negative, Ninety One head of sustainable ...

Trump inaugurated as 47th President

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... bond yields, investors were predicting a high risk of recession in the US, and markets were betting on official interest rates falling to 2.8% by early 2026. That number has lifted to about 4%. Bond markets have gone from anticipating perhaps nine interest ...

Unemployment edges up despite jobs added

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... unemployment has come in higher for December, it hasn't reached a level where there is an urgency for the RBA to cut rates. The tight labour market will continue to exert upward pressure on services inflation, which is more pronounced relative to ...

Trump's response to global conflict adds uncertainty to private markets: IFM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... 12 months ago. IFM Investors co-head of Australian diversified credit Lillian Nunez said the firm now predicts that base rates will likely remain elevated throughout the year, with the first rate cut not expected before May, and for credit spreads to ...

Vision Super to drop fees upon merger

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... administration fees will drop from $78 per annum to $66.04 pa. This will be on top of the 2% reduction in insurance fee rates which were announced in September 2024. "That's just the start of the potential benefits we see ahead - our modelling of the ...

ANZ, Macquarie bring forward rate cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... figures were released, Chalmers put out a positive sentiment, though stopped short of predicting when the RBA would cut rates. "Headline inflation is now around a third of what we inherited from the Liberals. It's almost a quarter of its peak in 2022. ...

Australian economy on the up in 2025: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... years during 2024. Vanguard said this improvement will come despite the overhang of sticky inflation and elevated interest rates. Additionally, it predicts the core inflation rate will fall to 2.5% during 2025, and that the Reserve Bank of Australia's ...

Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Investors have head into the New Year with many of the same concerns they had at the start of 2024, with interest rates and inflation to dominate once again. Last November, RBA governor Michele Bullock indicated the central bank views its settings as ...