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Wages grow 0.7% in June quarter

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2024
... conditions though: private wages growth rate has cooled for four consecutive quarters and is now at the lowest pace since December 2021. This is unsurprising given less tight labour market conditions, which points to further downside in public wages ...

Custody assets exceed $5tn milestone

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... Services Association (ACSA) data shows assets grew by 5.4% in the first half of the year. They now total $5.04 trillion; at December end, this figure was $4.5 trillion. This was driven, in part, by investors' higher allocations to global assets, which ...

Acquisitions boost WT Financial Group results

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
... be $4.8 million. "Significantly, in addition to enabling us to cash fund our $2 million acquisition of Millennium3 in December, consistent positive operating cashflow has enabled us to return to a dividend cycle," he said. On 8 December 2023, WTL finalised ...

No one immune to cost-of-living pain: ABS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
... spending patterns of different household types - higher than the 1% rise in inflation. "This is the first time since December 2010 that increases in living costs for all household types were higher than the increase in the CPI," Marquardt said. Insurance ...

Insight Investment appoints distribution lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
... on August 1. Murphy was previously managing director of BNY Mellon Investment Management Australia, a role he left in December 2014. During his tenure at Macquarie Funds Group, he was responsible for the group's Australian and global fund distribution ...

Cbus taps ex-AustralianSuper equities chief for 'critical role'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
... investment officer Brett Chatfield. Pascoe left AustralianSuper after an overhaul of its investments leadership team in December 2022, which was done to streamline its portfolio strategy and asset allocation activities. Before AustralianSuper, Pascoe ...

Mercer Super cops landmark $11.3m greenwashing penalty

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
... that it made false and misleading statements and engaged in conduct that could mislead the public. A hearing held on 7 December 2023 saw ASIC urge the court to approve the total penalty of $11.3 million. Justice Horan did not approve the penalty until ...

Barings, Rest break ground on $400m investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024
... Kemps Creek site takes the growing industrial asset portfolio of the Barings and Rest venture to around $1 billion. In December 2023, the venture acquired its first seed asset for $94 million, two fully leased modern warehouses across 46,934 GLA in the ...

Inflation rises but RBA hike not inevitable

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... for the June quarter is up from 3.6% in the March quarter. This is the first increase in annual CPI inflation since the December 2022 quarter." State Street Global Advisors APAC economist Krishna Bhimavarapu said the rise in inflation came in above expectations ...

The four Ds to watch in the decades to come: La Trobe

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... really matter; "What does matter is that private capital markets are significantly increasing in size." In the decade to December 2023, the global private capital market grew from $9.7 trillion to $24.4 trillion, he highlighted. "With this critical mass ...