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Private market investment impediments not insurmountable: Frontier

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2022
... impact on performance, Frontier said. Further, in some cases, certain private market sub-sectors may simply have poor economics. For example, build-to-rent is a sector that may be a net benefit to the economy, but uncertainty regarding the economics ...

NGS Super chair to retire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2022
... deputy chair and Terry Burke will chair the investment committee. "After starting my career as a secondary teacher of economics and history, it's been a great privilege to guide the industry super fund for those who work in independent and catholic education ...

Factor investors increase allocations: Invesco

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
Invesco's seventh annual Global Factor Investing Study has revealed that respondents expect factor-based strategies to outperform in an inflationary environment with slow economic growth. The study, based on interviews with 151 institutional and retail ...

Australia can avoid recession: Outlook

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
... AMP's Shane Oliver says. Amid dire, bleak, and gloomy economic outlooks, Oliver - AMP's head of investment strategy, economics, and chief economist - said if further geopolitical issues like the potential war over Taiwan don't flare up, there is ...

Pathzero names chief sustainability officer

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... latest data driven investment tool. Brulliard brings over 20 years of experience in climate change, natural resources economics and policy, in particular carbon, water and climate change adaption. Most recently, he was principal consultant at Point Advisory ...

October proves kinder to Magellan

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2022
After months of decreasing funds under management, Magellan Financial Group has reported the slightest of increases to its FUM despite further outflows. As at October end, Magellan's FUM sat at $51 billion; a month earlier it was $50.9 billion. Its ...

Federal Reserve raises rates 0.75%

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022
The US Federal Reserve has raised its policy interest rate by 75 basis points, flagging ongoing increases will be necessary to bring inflation down to target. Following the central bank's decision, the federal funds rate benchmark sits between 3.75% ...

Interest rates will jump to slay "the evil of inflation": Lowe

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2022
At the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board dinner, governor Phillip Lowe expressed that interest rates will need to go higher to bring inflation back to target. After a seventh straight rate rise, whereby the bank lifted the interest rate to 2.85% ...

Central banks to tighten on all sides: BlackRock

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
All eyes are on the Fed as it's set for another fourth straight 75bp hike, and central banks are taking a "whatever it takes" approach to pushing inflation back down to their targets, according to the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). The European ...

Australian housing slump marches on

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
After surging 28.6% between the pandemic low in September 2020 to a high in April, national property prices have fallen 6%, said AMP chief economist Shane Oliver. "The key drivers of the downturn remain: poor affordability, rising mortgage rates, some ...