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IMF issues stark inflation warning for Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised its inflation predictions for 2025, upping Australia's consumer price index expectations from 2.8% to 3.6%. In its World Economic Outcomes report, the IMF predicted Australia would be one of two advanced ...

Praemium unveils Spectrum for HNWs

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
Financial advisers now have access to a suite of solutions specifically tailored to high-net-worth (HNW) clients, known as Praemium Spectrum. Users can access a range of comprehensive assets, tools, and capabilities to better facilitate holistic wealth ...

Family office, KKR buy up regional Queensland airports

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
The Infrastructure Fund (TIF), Australian Retirement Trust (ART) and State Super have offloaded Queensland Airports to private equity giant KKR and Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar's family office, Skip Capital. Queensland Airports comprises Gold ...

RBA doubling down on wholesale CBDC

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Treasury today released a report on central bank digital currency (CBDC), citing a three-year project is now underway for wholesale CBDC. In a thorough report, Central Bank Digital Currency and the Future of Digital ...

Advisers shun major institutions, 500 exit: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2024
... advisers had to be registered on the Financial Adviser Register (FAR) if they wanted to avoid the transition period to upgrade their professionally accepted qualifications. "But when realisation set in regarding how intense the new regulatory, and especially ...

Family office, PE firms back local telco infrastructure provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
... demand from our customers for premium end-to-end specialist services in the development, installation, maintenance and upgrade of critical wireless telecommunications infrastructure (cellular base stations and towers) in Australia to major telecommunications ...

Barrenjoey, Scentre Group establish jointly managed fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
... Hoyts cinema complex, forming part of the most recent redevelopment of the centre in 2018. An additional $40 million in upgrade works are set to be completed in the first half of this year. The centre draws 10.8 million customers annually and currently ...

Budget 2024: The Budget by numbers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has unveiled his second consecutive Budget surplus tonight of $9.3 billion this year. This was the first back-to-back surplus in nearly two decades. However, instead of celebrating, Chalmers warned pressures on the Budget would ...

Budget 2024: Regulators given boost to combat misconduct, cybersecurity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud against the tax and superannuation systems. About $79 million will be spent to upgrade the ATO's technologies to identify and block suspicious activity in real time, while $83.5 million will go towards a new compliance ...

Count renews Iress contract

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2024
... speaks to the "solid progress" made on the firm's transformation program that has been two years in the making. "This upgrade comes as a result of bringing forward the benefits of transformation, through stronger cost discipline and a clear focus ...