Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 571 - 580 of 5900 results for "Second"

Platform reveals advice firms' top issues

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
... focus, we can see conversations around retirement and Centrelink, two related topics, were significantly higher in the second half of 2023, likely reflecting the increased advertising and marketing by providers in this space." Advisers frequently talked ...

SEC approves eight Ethereum ETFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
... approved Bitcoin ETFs back in March this year. "ETH is now firmly on the path towards ETP status. Although already the second largest crypto asset, this will expand investor awareness of this asset and its extraordinary role within the blockchain ecosystem," ...

Family offices up active management, eye generative AI: UBS

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
... active management to enhance portfolio diversification, up 4% from 2023." High-quality short duration fixed income is the second most popular strategy, with 35% of family offices diversifying in this way, while 33% are turning to hedge funds for diversification. ...

PrimaryMarkets launches new financial adviser channel

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
PrimaryMarkets has launched a new channel aimed at making alternative investments more accessible to financial advisers and their clients. The platform affords advisers and their client's access to a spectrum of investment opportunities, including unlisted ...

Centuria launches new wholesale fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... c.10,000 sqm of surplus land. "Hall Head Central provides a compelling, counter-cyclical investment opportunity within WA's second largest city, Mandurah. The centre benefits from a high proportion of non-discretionary retailers while presenting value-add ...

ISPT to divest $250m in super prime assets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
... - Australia Ben Hegerty said investor demand for logistics and industrial assets exceeded office sector volumes for the second time in 15 years in 2023. "There is no doubt rental growth has been an important incentive for developers to dust off their ...

Private markets demand cools: bfinance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
Investors' appetite for private market strategies appears to be waning as capital raisings fail to keep pace with the frenzied demand in 2023. According to a new report from bfinance, Manager intelligence and market trends, global private markets ...

Value versus growth: Market expectations in 2024

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2024
... of money was substantially higher than during the COVID-19 period, was a big headwind for growth stocks. However, by the second half of 2023, it became more of a "stock picker's market," where companies that met or exceeded earnings expectations and ...

Calls for a simplified path to financial advice

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... to increase numbers," she said. SMSF Association chief executive Peter Burgess lauded the fact that instead of needing a second degree to meet the financial planning education standard, the proposal means members may only need to do some bridging units. ...

Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down the Federal Budget last night, delivering its second consecutive surplus as well as a raft of measures to ease the cost-of-living crisis. Despite many of the measures presented in the Budget having been announced prior ...