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Platforms FUM falls $20bn: Report

CHLOE WALKER | WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2023

... were Macquarie Group (3.8%), Mercer (4.8%) and Praemium (4.9%). Plan For Life noted that these results came despite central banks ending an unprecedented era of ultra-low interest rates and moves to normalise monetary policies to get a handle on infl ...

HESTA generates 9.59% investment return

ANDREW MCKEAN | THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2023

... interest rate sensitive assets such as bonds, property, and infrastructure struggled, encumbered by rate rises from central banks combatting persistently high inflation. HESTA chief investment officer Sonya Sawtell-Rickson said while the fund expected ...

Future Fund trumps market averages

ANDREW MCKEAN | FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023

... surpassing the ASX (0.1%) and S&P500 (-7.7%). Future Fund Board of Guardians chair Peter Costello explained that as central banks, including the Federal Reserve and the Reserve Bank of Australia, raised interest rates in a bid to control inflation, investing ...

RBA appointments prompt debate

CASSANDRA BALDINI | FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023

... strengthen accountability. "It better aligns the RBA's monetary decision-making process with some other key central banks around the world," he said. However, Philip added, these sorts of changes will be of little relevance to Australian households ...

Global economic growth hits 20-year low: IMF

ANDREW MCKEAN | WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023

... receded amid stubbornly high inflation and recent financial sector turmoil. "Although inflation has declined as central banks have raised interest rates and food and energy prices have come down, underlying price pressures are proving sticky, with labour ...

Lowe reinforces more hikes may come

ANDREW MCKEAN | THURSDAY, 6 APR 2023

... and governance challenges. "It's worth recalling that the task of controlling inflation has been assigned to central banks following years of experience with other arrangements that did not work out so well," Lowe said.

Economists divided: RBA's moment of truth looms

ANDREW MCKEAN | TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023

... including labour force data, consumer surveys, retail sales, and monthly consumer price data, in determining the central banks next move. While recent growth momentum has shown signs of easing, inflation slowing more rapidly than anticipated, this should ...

Rest switches up recruitment focus

ELIZABETH FRY | FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023

... it's best not to be too definitive - that maybe now's not the time to stick one's neck out and claim central banks will stop raising rates and then predict the implications for equity markets," he says. He reckons the US central bank is fixated ...

RBA rate rises up in the air: Economists

CASSANDRA BALDINI | FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023

... not completely off the table. "The RBA certainly can't lean into the banking issues offshore given US and European central banks have hiked this week," Commonwealth Bank head of Australian economics and market research Gareth Aird told Financial Standard. ...

Industry super defies turbulent markets

KARREN VERGARA | WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2023

... the end of last year to $3.4 trillion in total, APRA said, pointing to market volatility largely driven by global central banks' aggressive monetary tightening to curb inflation, which has subsequently slowed economic growth. Super funds' rate of return ...

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Macquarie AM reshuffles real assets team

ELIZABETH FRY | 12:35PM

Macquarie Asset Management has consolidated three of its listed real assets businesses and reshuffled the investment team in a bid to drive synergies available to the asset class.

Australian Ethical drops investment fees

ELIZA BAVIN | 12:18PM

The super fund has lowered investment fees for superannuation and pension members.

Super Members Council names deputy chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | 12:44PM

Following a promotion, Georgia Brumby is now deputy chief executive of Super Members Council (SMC).

Best and worst performing ETFs revealed

ELIZA BAVIN | 12:32PM

The best and worst performing Australian ETFs have been identified in a new report from InvestSMART.

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