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Trump plans to ban large investors from buying homes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JAN 2026
... Policy settings in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis enabled greater investment activity by large firms, while the COVID-19 pandemic is said to have seen that activity accelerate. However, research by John Burns Research and Consulting in 2024 ...

Three megatrends to watch in 2026

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025
... Mullins said. "But valuations, while stretched, are not absolutely insane. We had worse PE ratios in 2020 and 2021, after COVID. So, yes, getting expensive, but not crazy. "Concentration risk is true, but... these are highly profitable companies. But ...

FEATURE: Private credit | At the precipice

GLENDA KORPORAAL  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... markets," she says. She sees the US private credit market as going through a credit cycle. "We've had the run up in the post COVID-19 environment when rates were really low, but then rates went higher as inflation increased," Nunez explains. "Positive ...

Chalmers spurs on private sector investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... our artificial intelligence plan. That's more reform in five days than our predecessors managed in the five years before COVID," Chalmers said. Chalmers added that the government is still working with regulators to facilitate a deep dive into financial ...

Centuria grows agriculture portfolio to $1.3bn with acquisition

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
... a deliberate strategy to diversify into high conviction alternative real estate sectors, which we commenced in the post-COVID period and have subsequently scaled beyond $1 billion of AUM." APIF assets are located throughout New South Wales, Victoria ...

Diverged focus for HNWs presents adviser opportunity: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2025
... especially in April 2025. Average concern levels spiked to 7.9 out of 10 in April, following new US tariffs - higher than the COVID peak (7.2). Despite this, investors remained disciplined, with two-thirds of HNWs making no major adjustments - sending ...

Equip Super searches for new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2025
... Equip chair Michael Cameron said. "He has also provided steadfast leadership through considerable change, including the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing regulatory demands, and ongoing global market volatility." Cameron also oversaw successor fund transfers ...

NZ Super delivers 11.84%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
... performance of global markets over the past 20 years - despite two once-in-a-generation crises in the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19."

Private and public markets almost interchangeable: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... credit] growth has been compounded each time that we've seen volatility in the public market, whether it's during COVID [or other shocking events], when interest rates were sharply higher, private credit stepped in and has proven itself as the ...

Australian economy 'stronger than expected'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... downgraded its medium-term outlook for productivity from 1% annual growth to 0.7% - the first time it has done so since COVID. Treasurer Jim Chalmers recently called it the most serious economic challenge facing the economy, however we have yet to get ...