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Oreana targets early education assets with new fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... assets which allows us to mitigate risks and capitalise on opportunities with greater confidence." He believes lower interest rates will also deliver "additional returns" to investors. "We have all the elements to deliver a market leading fund in this ...

Australian Ethical 'cautious' on valuations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... 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 markets seeking returns. "We see tech and AI as an important theme ...

Federal Reserve rate cuts beckon

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... target, the Fed's priority should shift to jump-starting economic growth. This, in her view, requires much lower interest rates than the market currently expects. "We forecast more than three percentage points of cuts by the end of 2026. That would bring ...

State Street receives Shariah-compliant certificate

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024
... Middle East, US and UK markets, and is expected to maintain its upward trajectory, driven by anticipated lower interest rates and a strong appetite for investments in emerging markets," Gmuer said. "This comes at a time where we are seeing growing interest ...

MLC MySuper option returns 9.8%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2024
... gains given the continued optimism on the prospects for 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) and renewed hopes for lower interest rates later this calendar year," he said. "In particular, the largest AI chipmaker - Nvidia - a company in which the MySuper growth ...

Morningstar warns of stretched valuations in Australian equities

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
... market has surprised on the upside, with equity investors looking through the malaise to the green pasture of lower interest rates," Morningstar director of equity research Mathew Hodge said. However, he cautioned that the market's enthusiasm might be ...

Demand for ETFs set to persevere

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2024
... appears to be reversing since October 2023, with prospects of falling rates in 2024. While the prospect of lower interest rates led to improved inflows for some fund managers, most are relying on the success of a few of their funds, which Morningstar ...

Super, advice class actions dampen CBA results

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... Super invested in in-house products. It also affected members in the FirstWrap Pooled Cash Account who earned lower interest rates well below the market so that for CFSIL could retain the margins for its own benefit. As ordered by the Federal Court ...

Higher premiums a problem, not a trend: AFA

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... seeing these sort of price rises'. It is a poor outcome." Clark referred to increased claims experience and lower interest rates as the biggest influences on higher premiums. "I think the intervention that APRA has made and the changes that industry ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... start of November, we don't think that equity markets have necessarily become overvalued. In our view, lower interest rates mean that the sustainable levels of price/earnings ratios have risen and, despite signs of froth in some market segments ...