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Institutional investors show signs uncertainty has peaked: State Street

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2025
... global growth rebalancing. In contrast, weak demand for Indian equities reflects lingering tariff and policy uncertainties. "Fiscal concerns persist, with foreign demand for Treasuries, Gilts, and OATs remaining weak. Notably, after five months of persistent ...

Private debt leads fixed income returns: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
... remained broadly unchanged year on year, the long end of the US Treasury curve lifted amid concerns over US government fiscal health and possible tariff-induced inflationary pressures," Morningstar found. Th increase in yields dragged on US-fixed income ...

Investors 'ignoring' volatility: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... grappling with stagnating productivity growth and GDP per capita," Schroders head of Australian equities Martin Conlon said. "Fiscal imbalances are obvious, with governments showing little intention of aligning spending with tax revenues. While equity ...

Platinum, L1 merger to help fight 'organic business decline'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... estimate it has broadly gained consistent net flows over the last seven years with the exception of the coronavirus-stricken fiscal 2020." Despite the positives to the deal, Ler said both entity's management fees are above peer averages, which puts them ...

Instos turn to risk as volatility lessens: State Street

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... continues. "Furthermore, the Labour Party's decisive victory in Australia's latest election better ensures expansionary fiscal policy. Institutional investors have built large allocations to Australian dollar, neutral positions in Australian ...

Pension leaders urge US 401(k) plans to embrace private markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... structural reset. Scale, sustainability, and diversification are moving from aspiration to necessity, as labour shifts, fiscal pressures, and demographic headwinds reshape the landscape. The conference noted that the Australian superannuation system ...

Treasury welcomes new leader

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... 2019. Wilkinson brings a range of experience in the Australian public service sector; she was previously Deputy Secretary, Fiscal Group of the Treasury and the Parliamentary Budget Officer between 2017 and 2020. She also held other senior positions at ...

Up to two million Aussies could face super tax: FSC

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
New modelling from the Financial Services Council (FSC) shows that up to 1.8 million Australians currently in the workforce could be impacted by the proposed superannuation tax under one of the four scenarios. The four scenarios consist of: $3 million ...

Netwealth chair to retire, successor appointed

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... He was also at one time a director of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), president of the International Fiscal Association (IFA Australia), formerly a member of the Tax Advisory Board of the University of Melbourne Law Faculty and a visiting ...

Global stock markets rally, but Trump's next post could flip the script

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... months. That was followed by a similar pause with Europe." The market, he added, was also encouraged by a more supportive fiscal environment, with Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' leaning towards bigger, rather than smaller, deficits. "Most people ...