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Gold soars over Trump's Greenland rhetoric

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2026
Safe-haven assets are being favoured by investors with gold prices skyrocketing off the back of US President Donald Trump's rhetoric around Greenland. Global X ETFs said it has seen average weekly flows into its suite of gold ETFs increase in 2026 as ...

Danish pension fund dumps US bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
A Danish pension fund is divesting all US government bonds from February 1, citing the country's growing debt crisis. Akademiker Pension, the $36 billion pension fund for academics, is selling off all its US government bond holdings, to the tune ...

The revolving door of opportunities for advisers in 2026

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
The new year opens a window of opportunities for financial advisers amid a volatile global market and growing geopolitical tensions. One of the major opportunities in 2026 that is tipped to garner huge demand for financial advice is retirement. "There ...

Big tech has "inconsequential" carbon emissions planning: Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2026
Latest research by World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has found that top technology companies including Meta, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft lack in mobilising low-carbon investments through capital expenditure and R&D, even though they have an emissions ...

Chalmers globetrots to sell minerals for foreign investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has travelled to the United States for a series of meetings with his international counterparts as he seeks to sell more of Australia's critical minerals in exchange for more foreign investment hitting Australian shores. "This ...

Australia evades tariff shocks, CPI to surge in 2026: UN

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2026
New research predicts that Australia's inflation rate will surge in 2026 and highlights that the country was left relatively unscathed by the US tariff shocks. According to the United Nations' (UN) latest World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026 ...

Global X reveals 2025 top performing ETF asset classes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2026
Global X has revealed that precious metals, copper miners and critical minerals were among the best-performing ETF asset classes in 2025, saying investors gravitated towards real assets amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty, inflation concerns and ...

HESTA records over $10bn in investment returns

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2026
... "Bullish global equity market performance helped drive these strong outcomes, shaking off concerns about rising geopolitical tension and tariffs, and that AI integration and capital investment could impact profit margins," Sawtell-Rickson said. She also ...

No room for a neutral stance in 2026: BlackRock

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2026
The market is ripe for active investing, the BlackRock Investment Institute said in its annual global economy and financial markets outlook report. The inertia of mounting geopolitical tensions and a rapidly unfolding artificial intelligence (AI) buildout ...

An outlook for fixed income allocations in 2026

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 23 DEC 2025
Fixed income allocations are becoming an increasingly viable and attractive option for investors in 2026, head of investment specialists at Insight Investment April LaRusse told Financial Standard. Providing guidance for the new year, LaRusse offered ...