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Underinvestment in Southeast Asia a 'big issue' for Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... operations to other parts of the world to mitigate risks and reliance on a singular market. Due to the impact of the pandemic, Southeast Asia has been a "large beneficiary" of the strategy. Moreover, Australia has underperformed in direct investment ...

Chalmers' warning on tariffs and trade wars

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... unveiling the Federal Budget tonight - highlighting the threat of a global trade war. "The 2020s have already seen a global pandemic, global inflation and the threat of a global trade war. The whole world has changed as a consequence," Chalmers said. ...

ETF market dips but bright spots emerge

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
... that, Pendal senior manager Samir Mehta remains bullish on the Chinese market, observing healthy developments since the pandemic. "Its (the Chinese market) returns on capital employed (ROCE) has risen from negative pre-pandemic levels to 9-11%. And if ...

AustralianSuper sued over death benefit delays

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
... is the final service we provide them. During COVID, a sharp increase in member deaths and a significant impact of the pandemic on staffing numbers saw a backlog relating to the processing of death claims emerge," the spokesperson said. 'We recognised ...

War on inflation: Australia vs New Zealand

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2025
... that inflation has cooled, HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham has examined which approach was better. "At the end of the pandemic, both Australia and New Zealand had similar-sized high inflation challenges. But the policy responses to these challenges ...

Annuities' capital settings due for change: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2025
... liabilities are not liquid," he said. Furthermore, Asher said the formula used did not work in 2020 during the Covid pandemic - when government bond yields behaved unpredictably due to quantitative easing and other factors. Challenger chief executive ...

AI's big moment? Not this year, says Fidelity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2025
... see its big breakthrough this year. Nevertheless, expectations for returns on capital are at their highest since the pandemic, according to Fidelity International's 2025 analyst survey. AI is expected to have minimal impact on corporate profitability ...

Global tariffs to spike under Trump: Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
... volatility they face. But there is good news. "We've got used to scenario planning. We're more nimble than we were pre-pandemic, higher for longer interest rates, higher US dollar, and potentially a steeper bond yield curve domestically," she ...

Australian GDP growth 'steady but not solid': La Trobe

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2025
... working more than ever, but our overall output isn't keeping pace." He found that some of the policy responses to the pandemic contributed to the low unemployment rate, but productivity has paid the ultimate price for some of those policies. Further ...

Investment down as uncertainty rises

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2025
... at profits. "Many businesses have been able to pass on higher costs to customers. This kept profit margins around pre-pandemic averages. But total business profits fell over the past year, with large falls in the mining industry and smaller falls elsewhere," ...