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Interest rates on hold as RBA pauses

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... interest rate increases on demand, inflation, and the labour market. "The board remains resolute in its determination to return inflation to target and will do what is necessary to achieve that outcome," she said. State Street Global Markets head of ...

Commercial property likely to recover in 2024: Insights

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... selection will maximise the chances of strong performance whether it is achieved through income growth or boosted by a return to yield compression as interest rates revert in 2024-26," he assured. The caveat is linked to another key prediction from Knight ...

Don't abandon 60/40: J.P Morgan

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2023
... provides a 10-15-year outlook for risks and returns across asset classes. According to the report, the forecasted annual return for a USD 60/40 stock-bond portfolio over the next 10-15 years remains attractive at 7%. "While that is a dip of 20 basis ...

Private equity, venture capital outperform listed assets: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2023
Over the past decade, private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) in Australia have yielded an 18% return on investment compared to 9% for the ASX 100 and 8% for the ASX Small Ordinaries Index in the last decade. According to the Australian Investment ...

Quality is worth paying for in 2024: UBS

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023
... both attractive income and capital appreciation. "We think weaker growth should contribute to lower interest rate expectations," it said. "Market expectations that the Fed will not cut rates below 4% within the next five years are overly hawkish in our ...

Scarcity Partners brings private equity investment model to Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
... Justin McLaughlin. Scarcity GP Access Fund fundraising began last month, with "strong investor interest" surpassing expectations. The fund will look to invest in five to 15 asset managers with significant growth potential, targeting returns of 20% per ...

Aussie banks deliver record profits in FY23

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023
... prior year marked by exceptionally high inflation, where consumer prices surged by nearly 2% each quarter. Finally, the return on equity increased by 138 basis points (bps) over the year, reaching 12%, signalling the highest figure in five years. However ...

Insurers drop allocation to risk assets: Research

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023
... expressed the most significant concerns as increasing interest rates (61%), inflation (58%), and evolving forward-looking expectations (50%). The report clarified that 90% of insurers mentioned the economic climate will prompt them to implement or plan ...

Frontier calls out structural super fund flaws

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
... spending plan for the future. "The Retirement Wage can be recalculated annually to reflect returns, future mortality expectations, inflation, and the member's goals for the year ahead," Carruthers said. "This annual review process ensures that retirees ...

Alternatives to top $33tn by 2028

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023
... due to a positive outlook for distressed debt strategies. The report found that from 2016 to 2022, its internal rate of return (IRR) was 9.11%, a figure forecasted to rise to an average of 9.81%, from 2022 to 2028. Further, Preqin revealed, that distressed ...