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US economy 'really taking off': UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2026
... economic commentary, universally it expects a strong US economy, very little risk of recession. If you look at sentiment indicators, there's a lot of confidence around that share markets will be strong this year."

Federated Hermes appoints global fixed income CIO

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
... responsible for tactical portfolio duration positioning grounded in macroeconomic business cycle analysis and valuation indicators. In her role as the sole head of the Municipal Bond Group, Ferentino will take over full oversight for Federated Hermes' ...

ASX-listed companies at breaking point: Alvarez & Marsal

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2025
... limited financial strength to invest and a lack of robustness on their balance sheets. Roughly 30% show weak performance indicators, with half of those already in distress. Put together, nearly 45% are either distressed or at risk of distress, it said. ...

Advisers acquired 300k new clients in 2025: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
... situation with others, financial literacy, and understanding investment and superannuation products. "Across several indicators, women assess their financial position less positively than men, including level of savings, ability to meet every day and ...

RBA says it can 'afford to be patient' on rate decisions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2025
... should the labour market weaken materially, it would be inclined to cut interest rates. "Members observed that many indicators of the labour market had softened over the prior year. They noted the risk that employment growth in the market sector remains ...

Majority of SMSF establishments based on bad advice: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2025
... clients," he said. "Financial advisers and advice licensees should use the findings, examples, action points and risk indicators in this report to improve the quality of their SMSF establishment advice, identify circumstances where an SMSF should not ...

Zombie companies on the ASX are dying out

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2025
... last six months. KPMG Australia's latest data showed a drop of 41% in companies considered zombie, where they exhibit indicators of financial distress for an extended period but are not yet insolvent and continue to trade. The number of zombies on the ...

November rate cut likely off the table as inflation lifts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2025
... We think the neutral rate is probably a little bit below this," Bullock said. "When we look at the forward-looking indicators for the labour market that doesn't appear in the medium term to be suggesting that the unemployment rate is going to deteriorate ...

UGC auditor 'comprehensively failed', registration stripped

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... of the investments were subordinate to other lenders, that the developments were underperforming and had impairment indicators that were not being reflected in the valuations, and that further lending was being provided to impaired developments," the ...

Instos continue to bite on risk: State Street

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... income assets. Investors are overweight risk and happy to remain that way. "Our broader suite of institutional flow indicators backs this message. Indeed, the sentiment reading from our across asset Behavioural Risk Scorecard shows the three-month moving ...