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FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... Advice, tells it, gearing - and specifically the use of margin loans - was a popular method of investing pre-Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The problem that arose was many investors were taking out margin loans and investing the money into only a handful ...

NZ Super delivers 11.84%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2025
... performance of global markets over the past 20 years - despite two once-in-a-generation crises in the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19."

PE firm sells CyberCX to Accenture

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2025
... provides consulting, transformation and managed security services, as well as offensive security and cyber physical security, crisis management, threat intelligence, managed detection and response and network security. CyberCX also has offices in New ...

Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... these measures were taken in response to extraordinary circumstances. "The situation in Gaza is a serious humanitarian crisis. We are invested in companies that operate in a country at war, and conditions in the West Bank and Gaza have recently worsened. ...

Overcoming the three-body problem in advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... herding behaviour come to the fore alongside feelings around loss aversion. As an example, Li looked to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), when the S&P500 fell 57% between September 2007 and late March 2009. US households lost US$16.4 trillion; about ...

Special feature: Shaping private markets

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... all together to give super funds a full portfolio view. That helps clients assess their risk exposures, model potential crisis scenarios, and understand where the vulnerabilities lie," he says. At a very basic level, custodians typically analyse the ...

Now is the best time to invest in infrastructure: Palisade

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
... see as the big opportunity right now is in social and affordable housing. We know we're in the middle of a housing crisis. "At a time when demand for social housing is increasing rapidly, the stock available is reducing. It's that supply-and-demand ...

Adviser exodus puts retirement savings at risk: CPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... action to help alleviate the burden of regulation and costs faced by advisers before the shortage becomes an irreversible crisis."

MA Financial gives $200m to legal finance platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2025
... JustFund said MA Financial's involvement comes at a critical time, with increasing social strains including the cost-of-living crisis, making separation even more precarious. MA Financial executive director, global credit solutions Guy Kaufman said JustFund's ...

Improved economy not a guarantee of business success

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... condition of the economy has little to do with the pressures businesses are facing. "While the worst of the cost-of-living crisis and associated economic slowdown appears to be over, economic growth remains sluggish and is still going backwards on a ...