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RBA anticipated to delay interest rate cuts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2024
HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham says that despite widespread market enthusiasm for imminent central bank interest rate cuts, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is likely to hold off on such cuts for the foreseeable future. Bloxham said that the RBA ...

Tokenisation is the future: Northern Trust

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2024
... can go in transforming the fund's lifecycle. "While many jurisdictions have started to launch pilots or experiences with central bank digital currencies (CBDC), their use has not reached the level of mainstream adoption," sleep said. "Besides CBDCs ...

Future Fund soars to $272.3bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2024
... strongly in the final quarter of the year, fuelled by speculation that interest rates have peaked and will soon be cut by central banks," he said. Among the investment changes made during 2023, the fund moderately reduced its alternatives exposure, increased ...

Emerging markets well placed for 2024

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024
... East Asia basis)," Buchet said. "Across emerging markets, disinflation is now well entrenched, thanks to emerging market central banks having done a fine job of acting early and forcefully to preserve their inflation-targeting credibility." This, Buchet ...

Experts expect the RBA to hold: Finder

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024
... months," Bloxham said. "By the second half of the year, the risk gets larger that cuts could arrive... but this is not our central case." Janus Henderson fixed interest strategist Emma Lawson noted that most G10 markets (meaning the markets which are ...

Mild recession in 2024, higher interest rates: Vanguard

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... rates will remain above the rate of inflation, severely affecting the ability of consumers and businesses to borrow. While central banks feel more confident in achieving inflation targets, Vanguard anticipates rate cuts in the second half of 2024. "However ...

J.P. Morgan lists fixed income ETFs

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2023
... strategy as the JPMorgan Global Bond Fund (mutual fund). With inflation starting to cool and growing signs that global central banks are approaching the end of their hiking cycles, this is generally a favourable environment for quality fixed income assets ...

Coastal Advice Group expands reach

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... Macquarie firm in the new year. "We commenced this project earlier this year, to identify key partnerships between the Central Coast and the Gold Coast and our first look interstate," Coastal Advice chief executive Daniel Brown said. "Our experience ...

Interest rates on hold as RBA pauses

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... surprised to the upside relative to their own forecasts for underlying inflation or the jobs market," Bloxham said. "Our central case is that the cash rate will now be held steady at 4.35% for some time."

ASX calls time on mFund settlement service

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2023
... investor behaviours rendered its future as a material player Australian funds management market increasingly unlikely. Central to ASX's decision was feedback from its consultation which revealed that most respondents viewed mFund as a non-essential ...