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Waning AI optimism, Fed rate cut driving US pullback: UniSuper

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... says the November pullback in the US market is driven by the waning optimism on the sustainability of the AI thematic and a rate cut by the Federal Reserve. Colosimo said the market is now questioning the AI play and if there are going to be economic ...

First Sentier adds second active ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2025
... incurring management fees of 0.75% per annum. Performance fees also apply, with 15% of the fund's outperformance plus a hurdle rate of 0.75% p.a. charged, and a maximum fee of 2.5 times the hurdle rate (being 0.75% p.a.) applied, it said. It follows ...

AZ NGA partners with Sydney Financial Planning

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2025
... "This partnership provides continuity and certainty for employees and clients and also support to help us grow at a faster rate and provide career development opportunities for team members and future leaders." The partnership follows AZ NGA's investments ...

Aware Real Estate, Barings acquire Home HQ Artarmon

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
Aware Super's real estate branch, Aware Real Estate, and Barings have acquired the retail shopping centre Home HQ Artarmon. The property was purchased from a fund managed by Growthpoint Properties Australia for $180.1 million, with each taking a 50% ...

Betashares launches new Enhanced Credit Income ETF

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
... ECRD), in expansion of its innovative fixed income investment solutions range. The ETF is designed to invest in floating-rate subordinated bonds issued by Australia's Big 4 banks, as well as interest-rate hedged investment-grade corporate bonds from ...

Perpetual raises $268m to expand credit investments

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
... over a number of time periods that we can provide a source of income to PCI's unitholders, in excess of the RBA cash rate and we believe this makes PCI an attractive investment proposition," Stock said. Stock noted that while the private credit market ...

FEATURE | Agriculture: Golden soil

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... strengths Horne was quite critical of Australia when he wrote The Lucky Country, stating it is a country "run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck." He describes the country as "provincial" in which most of its activities are derivative and ...

Principal rejoins Mercer team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
Mercer has recruited a former employee as a principal and senior actuarial consultant. In her new role, Christine Lu will focus on life insurance consulting as well as on defined benefit and defined contribution superannuation. Lu has 14 years of experience ...

Australia's gender pay gap narrows: WGEA reports

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... largely due to internal appointments and promotions of non-managers, the report said. Although there has been no change to the rate of women in chief executive roles (22%) in the last 12 months. This is a positive indicator that employers are dismantling ...

APRA's fresh guardrails to impact property investors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will limit high debt-to-income (DTI) home lending in a move to pre-emptively contain a build-up of housing-related vulnerabilities in the financial system, APRA chair John Lonsdale said. From 1 February ...