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US election to add to inflation woes: Experts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
... Aubrey Capital Management investment manager Rob Brewis agreed that both candidates' policies will likely lead to higher inflation and could cause the US Federal Reserve to put further rate cuts on hold, which could impact other established and emerging ...

Future Fund delivers strong 11.9% return

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... experienced positive contributions from its alternatives, credit and infrastructure holdings." Arndt added that while inflation is subsiding in much of the developed world, it remains higher and more volatile than investors have been used to. "Central ...

Commonwealth Bank finally relents on interest rate call

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2024
Yesterday's CPI data - which showed trimmed mean inflation has remained stubbornly high - put the final nail in the coffin for those hoping for an interest rate cut in 2024. Commonwealth Bank head of Australian economics Gareth Aird was one of the last ...

UniSuper offers plenty to like, says Morningstar

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... its long-term themes. "Themes expected to be structurally pervasive include a normalising cost of capital, persistent inflation, ageing demographics, and ongoing technological innovation. These ideas materialise in tilts both across and within asset ...

Inflation falls within RBA's target range

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2024
... said. "Annually, the September quarter's rise of 2.8% was down from 3.8% in the June quarter. This is the lowest annual inflation rate since the March 2021 quarter." However, despite inflation falling within the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) target ...

Major global trends impacting advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2024
High interest rates (70%), economic downturn and inflation risks (both 68.8%), and the impact of central bank policy (61.3%) usurped any concerns about this year's election cycle for Australian financial advisers and investors, according to this year's ...

IMF issues stark inflation warning for Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised its inflation predictions for 2025, upping Australia's consumer price index expectations from 2.8% to 3.6%. In its World Economic Outcomes report, the IMF predicted Australia would be one of two advanced ...

Asset managers need to improve performance: Morningstar

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... and increase investments in distribution." The report found that structural challenges such as fee compression, wage inflation, and the need for business development investments continue to pressure profit margins. "We believe traditional active managers' ...

US better positioned to deliver strong returns: UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2024
... capita basis Australia is actually going backwards. By contrast, the US economy is doing well with a strong economy, inflation under control, and the US Federal Reserve cutting interest rates. Signs, Pearce said, are classic ingredients to sustain a ...

ESSSuper shifts members to new default option

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024
... via diversification, the super fund said. The new option targets moderately high returns of 3.25% above the rate of inflation or 3.75% above the rate of inflation on for retirement income stream accounts. It has a minimum investment timeframe of 10 years ...