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HESTA returns 10.18% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... remain an important consideration as we head into the new financial year," she said. "Our expectation is that global economic growth will likely be slower, though the response of several central banks has helped temper recession fears. Further rate reductions ...

Improved economy not a guarantee of business success

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... has little to do with the pressures businesses are facing. "While the worst of the cost-of-living crisis and associated economic slowdown appears to be over, economic growth remains sluggish and is still going backwards on a per-capita basis," Rumbens ...

AMP Super delivers double digit returns in FY25

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2025
... highlight the strength of its investment approach through a volatile period marked by geopolitical tension and shifting economic conditions. AMP chief investment officer Anna Shelley said despite the persisting headwinds and ongoing uncertainty around ...

Finance news foretells stock market volatility: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
... and "loss" exhibited strong contemporaneous correlations with volatility spikes. Conversely, they found that general economic and financial terms such as "asset", "stock", "government" and "dollar" emerge as predictors of monthly volatility, likely reflecting ...

Chalmers opens economic reform consultation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has opened the new economic reform consultation paper while issuing more invitations to the government's Economic Reform Roundtable. "The roundtable is an important opportunity to build consensus for long term economic reform," ...

Super funds, banks say cybersecurity is now their biggest concern

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2025
... role in shaping APRA's approach to supervision and policy development. "At a time of great international volatility and economic uncertainty, it's important the Australians can rely on the financial and operational resilience of our banking, insurance ...

Magellan bolsters investment and distribution ranks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
Magellan Asset Management has strengthened both its distribution and investment teams with a string of senior hires, sharpening its adviser focus and deepening its equities and infrastructure bench. Andrew Dowling, who joins next month, will be based ...

Regal Partners adds to stable, plans hotels strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... accommodation sector." "Following a period of significant price dislocation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and broader economic slowdown, we believe the Australian hotel sector now offers investors the unique opportunity to benefit from compelling ...

APRA acknowledges need to reduce regulatory burden

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... believe APRA provides sufficient support when changes are proposed. "At a time of great international volatility and economic uncertainty, it's important the Australians can rely on the financial and operational resilience of our banking, insurance and ...

Chalmers advocates for Aussie instos on 'Big Beautiful Bill'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... when it comes to trade and tariffs and these escalating trade tensions around the world," Chalmers said. "The global economic environment is very uncertain, very unpredictable and very volatile. The conflict in the Middle East is part of the story but ...