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BlackRock's Fink signals a tough road ahead for future retirees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2024
... putting the US retirement system under immense strain, he added. So, as people are living longer, we should discuss what the average retirement age should be. Instead of pushing back retirement benefits, we should encourage people to work longer by treating ...

Threats outside the Australian financial system build: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA's) latest Financial Stability Assessment has said that although risks to global economy have been balanced as inflation has eased, risks to financial stability remain. The Assessment said there is a possibility ...

Why this fundie sees the economy making a hard landing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... similarly grim outlook. The Sahm Rule, a recession indicator that signals that a recession begins when the three-month moving average of the unemployment rate rises by 0.5% or more from its lowest point in the past year has flashed red. Although, the ...

Raiding super can worsen housing affordability: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... Since 2000, the nominal median house price weighted by capital city has increased by about 7% per annum compared with average growth in full-time employee earnings of 3.8%, ASFA's Early release of superannuation for home purchase paper states. Those ...

Why active managers are falling behind in emerging markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2024
... more inconsistent, VanEck said. The research showed emerging markets equities active managers have failed to generate, on average, higher excess returns, with data revealing the median active manager has underperformed the benchmark in 10 out of 14 calendar ...

Institutional investors shift gears amid 'new market regime'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... infrastructure projects such as energy storage and grids. Notably, pension funds in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region showed above-average interest in nature-based solutions. Nuveen's head of global client group Mike Perry said investor's view government ...

Listed companies drive economy's momentum: ABDO

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... valuation of the top 100 listed stocks, Bruce's analysis calculates it to be roughly 15x, which is about the long-term average. Furthermore, he found that within the market "there is a significant valuation dispersion". "Other things being equal, that ...

Markets, economies benefit from eustress: ABDO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... longer cheap. Most people would agree that the cash rate of 4.35% is high, Paton said. "However, over the last 35 years the average central bank rate has been 4.42%. On a longer-term basis, today's rates are far more normal than those we had prior ...

Castlerock embarks on $30m capital raise

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2024
... across Australia, with the aim of providing our investors healthy distributions and growth potential." The fund has an average weighted average lease expiry (WALE) of 5.9 years, 99% occupancy and a loan-to-value ratio (LVR) of 43% with 90% of the debt ...

Advisers flock to managed accounts, but are very selective

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2024
... as one of the main upsides of using managed accounts with advisers now reporting they, or their support staff, save on average 22.8 hours per week, up from 17.1 hours last year. For an adviser who works 7.5 hours a day, that's a saving of three days ...