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PC outlines key reforms to boost clean energy investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
... after 2030. The report also recommended broadening and improving the Safeguard Mechanism and introducing a technology-neutral policy to incentivise heavy vehicle operators to reduce emissions. "Enduring, broad-based market mechanisms are the best way ...

Productivity Commission recommends corporate tax cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... of their investments. Together, the changes could increase investment in the economy by $8 billion while being revenue-neutral over the medium term, the PC said. "If we don't get our economy moving again, today's children could be the first generation ...

Investors 'ignoring' volatility: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... has occurred largely without excess sentiment or broad participation, pointing instead to a defensive reweighting toward neutral positioning. "Markets are no longer reacting sharply to geopolitical developments, they're fatigued," Mullins said. "This ...

Instos turn to risk as volatility lessens: State Street

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... better ensures expansionary fiscal policy. Institutional investors have built large allocations to Australian dollar, neutral positions in Australian banks, while equity holdings are still low."

RBA interest rate cut expected

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025
... "The cash rate remains in restrictive territory and another cut in July will bring the cash rate closer to estimates of neutral which sit at around 3.25%." CBA also expects another rate cut in August and potentially another in late 2025 or early 2026 ...

MLC AM delivers real returns for members in FY25

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... doesn't sound that exciting, but it was actually a challenging year." Ultimately, the fund manager decided to take a "neutral" stance on equities, spurred by the Liberation Day turbulence. In early April, US President Donald Trump unleashed a slew ...

ASIC takes Block Earner case to High Court

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2025
... assets from one form into another are regulated. "The definition of financial product was drafted in a broad and technology-neutral way, and ASIC believes it is in the public interest to clarify this," the regulator said. "This clarification is important ...

J.P. MAM slashes recession probability to 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... equities, particularly US equities. But since Liberation Day, its overall equity position has moved from overweight to neutral, maintaining small, long positions in Europe, UK and Japan - effectively diversifying out of US equities. US equities have ...

NAB forecasts 50bp rate cut in May

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... CPI forecast for trimmed mean inflation - is well over 1%," Auld said. "In our view that shifts the cash rate back to a neutral stance more quickly than we had previously expected and leaves the RBA with a more appropriate policy stance. "With longer ...

Cbus plays it steady amid rocky start to the year

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... We still don't think that a US recession is probable. It's certainly possible, but not probable. That's why we're neutral equities at the moment." He adds that while there's a possibility markets will overact in the weeks ahead, this could open the ...