Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 21 - 30 of 2399 results for "Below"

US, Iran agree to cease fire, outlook remains 'uncertain'

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2026
... agreement between the US and Iran, confirmed by both parties, has seen an immediate market reaction with oil prices dipping below US$100 for the first time since the US launched its attacks. The agreement arrived a day after an ultimatum, issued by US ...

Inflation remains firm, May rate hike still in play

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2026
... to January," ABS head of prices statistics Sue-Ellen Luke said. Annual trimmed mean inflation was 3.3% in February, just below the market expectation of 3.4%. Additionally, annual trimmed mean inflation in January was revised down from 3.4% to 3.3% ...

Treasury downgrades productivity assumptions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2026
... migration of around 300,000 people a year. Treasury said this should help boost the economy. "Net overseas migration is 45% below its peak, but Treasury expects the fall to be more modest over the forecast period, mainly due to lower than expected departures," ...

Major super reforms cost members $670m in death benefits: ASFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2026
... for 16 months. Under PMIF, default insurance cover was removed for members under 25 and for anyone with an account balance below $6000. ASFA estimated that five million individual accounts lost insurance cover as a result of this. ASFA chief policy and ...

Equity Trustees lands new mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2026
... highest-conviction ideas - companies with mispriced value and cashflows, high quality growth businesses, and businesses trading below asset backing."

Productivity slumps again, capital injection needed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... capital inputs are combined to produce outputs, declined over the 12 months to June 2025. MFP decreased by 0.5% over 2024-25, below the 20-year average of 0.4% growth per year and well below the 1.6% annual average increases between 1994-95 to 2003-04. ...

Super outflows persist but profits up at Insignia Financial

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2026
... management and administration and the continued execution of our cost-out program," Hartley said. "Pleasingly we have reduced below the line cash costs from $153 million to $16 million which has greatly improved our NPAT result." Profits in the advice ...

Challenger results a 'headline miss'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2026
... miss" on expectations. "CGF today announced its financial results for 1H26, delivering a headline miss with Life profit below expectations, partially offset by higher funds management," Ord Minnett said. "Normalised net profit after tax (NPAT) $229 million ...

Bullish on AI? Don't buy US tech: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2026
... grow by 3%. It said solid growth and still-sticky inflation will leave the Federal Reserve with limited room to cut rates below Vanguard's 3.5% estimate of the neutral rate, which would neither promote nor restrict economic activity.

GQG reports increased FUM despite $5.5bn outflows

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2026
... outflows. "[GQG's] core global strategy was near the bottom of peers on 2025 returns, with EM and quality strategies well below average, leading to six consecutive months of net outflows totalling ~US$12 billion in 2H25," Morgan Stanley said. "Our ...