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BlackRock launches new bond ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... new ETF was in response to Australian advisers and investor demand. "Bond yields globally are at decade-highs, and if inflation indicators continue to fall, central banks may proceed to cut official cash rates. We believe investors have a window of opportunity ...

Praemium revenue grows to $85m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... to $61.3 million, up 20% on FY23, due to increased IT and risk mitigation costs. "The latter were reflective of wage inflation, capability improvement with more senior employees added and increased number of employees more broadly," it said. Directors ...

Fed's Powell says 'time has come' to cut rates

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has declared that inflation is on a sustainable path back to the 2% target and the "time has come" to start cutting interest rates. Powell spoke to global central bankers, policymakers, economists, and academics ...

Zenith increases defensive investment as recession risk looms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2024
... remains on a soft-landing path, which is an outcome of central banks raising interest rates just enough to bring down inflation to their target levels, without causing a major recession or meaningful increase in unemployment levels." However, despite ...

What does the RBNZ rate cut mean to Australia?

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2024
... rate by 25 basis points to 5.25% after holding a decades-high rate of 5.50% since May 2023. The central bank pointed to inflation converging to its target range as the core reason of the cut. RBNZ aims to contain inflation between a target range of 1% ...

UK pension giant eyes Australian timber

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
... global timberland this year. Nest said investing in timberland should provide stable returns with a cash yield, a natural inflation hedge, and portfolio diversification. It first began looking at the asset class' potential in 2021. Given Campbell's global ...

Trump victory will jostle trade war, interest rates: Morningstar

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
The potential re-election of Donald Trump will likely jostle inflation and interest rates, and stoke further trade wars with China, according to Morningstar. If Trump wins in November, Morningstar director of equity research for Australia and New Zealand ...

What Yarra Capital is buying in the dip

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... gains. "The good news is that we are about 50% through the adjustment in equity markets and that concerns over excess inflation can now be relegated to history," he said. "Rate cuts are clearly coming in size, and once the early signs appear that the ...

Australia sees jump in zombie companies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
... declined from 4.27% in 2022 to 3.02% in 2023. The real estate sector was the most affected by economic instability, inflation, and rising interest rates, while the travel and tourism sector saw a decline in zombie companies due to a post-pandemic recovery. ...

ESSSuper launches Balanced Growth Managed option

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... retirement by delivering stable returns via diversification. It targets moderately high returns of 3.25% above the rate of inflation or 3.75% above the rate of inflation for retirement income stream accounts. For example, if the consumer price index ...