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Betashares adds global bond ETF to lineup

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... efficient after-tax outcomes and smoother cash distribution profiles to Australian investors. The launch comes as central banks around the world have entered a rate-easing cycle, resulting in more interest in cash and fixed income ETFs with net flows ...

Private debt leads fixed income returns: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
... spreads in March and April of 2025, before swiftly reverting down by June." The report said that while a number of central banks - including the Reserve Bank of Australia - either started or continued to cut cash rates over the past year, leading to ...

HESTA returns 10.18% to members

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... 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 are expected over the year ahead, including here in Australia, which ...

Managed fund inflows jump over 20x: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... president Donald Trump's election victory, but confidence waned in February as the glow of US exceptionalism faded and central banks pushed back against rate-cut expectations. That triggered profit-taking in equity markets and sent bond yields higher ...

US-Iran tensions send markets into panic mode

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... inflation, which remains elevated and/or sticky in many regions. Market participants had been pricing in rate cuts from central banks including the Federal Reserve in the second half of the year. That is now in question," Green said. "A sustained surge ...

Lower interest rates conducive for bigger risk appetite, small caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... to their large-cap brethren. Looking at the top seven companies in the US, the "discrepancy is even wider." Most central banks around the world are now more dovish and find themselves in a global easing cycle. The European Central Bank (ECB) cut its ...

Bullock hushes rate cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... 30bp cut in May. Bullock said the RBA is engaging closely with other financial regulators in Australia and other central banks around the world. "We are carefully considering several factors including the response of our trading partners, additional ...

RBA flags concerns over 'geopolitical uncertainties'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
... delay expenditures pending greater clarity on the outlook. "Inflation, however, could move in either direction. Many central banks have eased monetary policy since the start of the year, but they have become increasingly attentive to the evolving risks ...

RBA forecasting has been 'terrible': Yarra Capital Management

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... RBA should have lowered the interest rate as early as August last year. Despite a later rate cut comparing to most central banks around the world, Australia is positioned "bang in the middle" amongst other developed countries in reaching its inflation ...

Monetary policy not the only game in town: Brian Redican

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... El-Erian, who was chief executive of Harvard's endowment and PIMCO, published The Only Game in Town in 2016, presenting central banks as the key driver of the economic agenda. But now it's governments in the driver's seat, NSW Treasury Corporation chief ...