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Industrial property ensures big wins for TelstraSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2022
... will be persistent and that central banks will continue to be aggressive. "The combination of inflation and higher interest rates is going to have a meaningful impact on company profitability," he cautioned. Soaring interest rates have pushed him to ...

BetaShares unveils interest rate hedged bond ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022
... class in a way that reduces interest rate risk - an important consideration in an environment where inflation and interest rates are front of mind for investors and their advisers." Vynokur added that Betashares' versatile range of fixed income investment ...

New credit fund targets Australia

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2022
... diversified portfolio of credit investments reflecting attractive risk-reward characteristics irrespective of the path of interest rates and in the context of growth in the private market for credit solutions. Commenting on the joint venture, Alpha Wave ...

Forget BRICs: Skerryvore

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
... actually in very strong fiscal and financial positions, and host world leading businesses," Tabberer said. "In Brazil, interest rates are higher than the inflation rate, whereas in the UK, inflation is a lot higher than the interest rate. So actually ...

SMSF growth slows, allocations shift

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
... said. "SMSF investors appear to be maintaining a preference for the more risk averse asset classes, but a surge in interest rates may play a role in returning funds back to cash." According to the ATO, almost one dollar in every five held in SMSFs is ...

The future of defined contribution asset allocation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... 401(k) system and Australia's superannuation have grown during an accommodative market, characterised by falling interest rates, rising beta equity, and robust growth in residential real estate. But a combination of rapidly declining valuations amid ...

Equipsuper investment chief on re-energising his team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... interest; we have increased our exposure to bonds after seeing bond yields move higher in line with increasing interest rates. For many years, with record low interest rates in place, bonds have not been an attractive investment with yields close to ...

Federal Reserve raises rates 0.75%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022
... restraint to be realised, especially on inflation," Powell said. Therefore, he signalled that the ultimate level of interest rates will be higher than previously expected. Meanwhile, earlier this week, an outfit of Senate Democrats, including Elizabeth ...

Interest rates will jump to slay "the evil of inflation": Lowe

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2022
At the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board dinner, governor Phillip Lowe expressed that interest rates will need to go higher to bring inflation back to target. After a seventh straight rate rise, whereby the bank lifted the interest rate to 2.85% ...

Australian housing slump marches on

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
... ago, the speed of Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cash rate hikes and heightened household sensitivity to rising interest rates flowing from much higher debt levels now along with the extent of the prior boom," he said. Meanwhile, according to CoreLogic ...