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Australian economy in 'very good place': RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2025
... inflation has fallen substantially since the peak of 7.8% in 2022 and is now within the 2-3% target range. The higher interest rates over that period helped to put downward pressure on inflation and to keep inflation expectations anchored," she said. ...

Concentration of private credit sector a concern: ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2025
... concentration of investors using the wholesale sophisticated investor exemption, and with less transparency on conflicts of interest, manager remuneration disclosure, and valuations and portfolio reporting." In all, the interim report identifies four ...

ASIC issues interim stop orders to La Trobe Financial

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
... and their retail products, focused on fund transparency, governance, valuation practices, management of conflicts of interest and fair treatment of investors. On September 3, La Trobe said it was revising the Product Disclosure Statements for the Australian ...

APRA to hunt for new deputy chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) said a search is underway after APRA deputy chair Margaret Cole advised the Treasurer of her intention to step down at the end of her current term on 30 June 2026. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the ...

Australia maintains global retirement security ranking: Natixis

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... that Australians are fearful for their stability in retirement. Pressures from inflation, the cost of living and higher interest rates are undeniably crunching retirees' wallets and increasing uncertainty on how much they can spend in retirement balances ...

UniSuper appoints chief advice officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
UniSuper has named a chief advice officer, promoting from within the fund. Current head of financial advice and education Andrew Gregory was appointed to the new role and will commence on October 1. As chief advice officer, Gregory will continue to ...

Retirement expectations of young Australians surge

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... preservation age. When answering survey questions, many Australians struggled to understand foundational concepts like interest, inflation and the importance of diversification in managing risk. Despite rapidly mounting income expectations and housing ...

Private markets, asset class correlations upending 60-40 portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... can be unstable and changes over time. In 2022, for example, that correlation between credit risk and equity risk and interest rate risk turned very positive and moderated a little bit," he told a GSFM event in Sydney. Marshall points to the correlation ...

Zenith reaffirms Metrics ratings amid doubts

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... effectively reassigned all our ratings to Metrics in May when we did our sector release, with some of the recent media interest, we thought that was appropriate to communicate... because we have a different opinion to Lonsec. I guess that's what ...

Rest invests $390m in US REIT

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... investment is expected to benefit from one of these megatrends: systemic changes to debt markets," he added. "Inflation and interest rates are likely to stay higher for longer, which increases the attraction for businesses to rent rather than own real ...