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Mortgage holders, retailers relax after rate pause

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023
... from lifting their fixed and variable home loan rates, Mortgage Choice chief executive Anthony Waldron said. The big four banks boosted their owner-occupier fixed rates by 0.30%. NAB for example, put up the one-year fixed rate from 6.24% to 6.54%; the ...

Global X launches new Australian equity ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023
... as a sector diversification tool, allowing investors to complement existing blue-chip portfolio holdings in the big four banks, major mining and energy companies, while avoiding a concentration in these sectors. "This fund offers an effective solution ...

Australian equities to outperform in 2023: VanEck

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2023
... were up 1.89% for the year, midcaps fell 6.3% and small caps were down 18.3%. VanEck further revealed Australia's big four banks were some of the best-performing stocks after reporting net interest margin (NIM) expansion. On the other hand, companies ...

ANZ to pay $42m in insurance lawsuit

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... Blennerhassett said. "Class actions are one way people can take on big corporations, including Australia's Big Four banks." Slater and Gordon previously filed a separate class action against ANZ, OnePath Custodians and OnePath Life as part of its ...

RBA weighs controversial pre-election rate rise

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
... half don't expect the RBA to jack up rates until June. Unlike the surveyed economists, interestingly three of the big four banks have said they expect a rate rise on Tuesday.

Aussie dividends recover losses

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2021
... the world's biggest dividend payer with $25.4 billion in payouts from both its Australian and UK businesses. The big four banks are also on their way back to pre-pandemic levels as Commonwealth Bank hiked its dividends to within one eighth of its previous ...

Metrics Credit Partners acquires

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2021
... the first Australian non-bank asset manager to join the Climate Bonds Partnership Programme. Metrics joins the big four banks, the Green Buildings Council of Australia, and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in the Climate Bonds Initiative's (CBI) ...

Metrics Credit Partners joins climate partnership

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021
... the first Australian non-bank asset manager to join the Climate Bonds Partnership Programme. Metrics joins the big four banks, the Green Buildings Council of Australia and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in the Climate Bonds Initiative's (CBI) programme. ...

Big four bank complaints drop

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
The number of consumer complaints received in relation to the big four banks has fallen over the last financial year, the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) said. Complaints about Westpac, ANZ, NAB and Commonwealth Bank fell 7% out of ...

Looking beyond high-dividend stocks

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021
... a chance they might make it in 2022." However, Cappetta cautioned over the lack of product innovation from the big four banks and is looking for the ways in which they will spend the proceeds from their exit from the wealth industry. "In ways they can ...