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Aware Super adds infrastructure portfolio manager

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... identify further opportunities to invest in infrastructure, but will also help us bring more asset management capabilities in house, which is a vital part of our strategy to lower fees for our members," he added. Last month, Aware Super has established ...

CPI rises, IMF lowers global outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
... banks that have started tightening should stay the course until inflation is tamed. Aside from the IMF announcement, a White House statement has quashed the traditional recession evaluation method of two consecutive quarters of falling GDP - just one ...

Office for Women combats financial abuse

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
A new resource released by the Office for Women will assist the financial services sector to understand how its financial products may be used in the financial abuse of women. The new resource, Guide to prevention and action on financial abuse within ...

Tax exemptions overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy: OECD

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2022
... Co-operation and Development (OECD) report indicates that Australia's lack of capital gains tax has led to a monumental increase in house prices that have unfairly affected the less wealthy. The report states that between 1981 and 2016, homeownership ...

RBA scenario implies record costs: UBS

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022
UBS has forecast that the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) rate rise assumptions would cause an unprecedented payment spike for households. The RBA's scenario of a 300-basis point increase in interest rates by mid-2023 would see interest payments as ...

Mason Stevens appoints head of asset allocation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022
... advice, or representation on an investment committee." "We have the specialist resources like live trading execution and in-house experts, to support that. "This provides advisers the flexibility to instead focus on their client conversations." Spence's ...

Treasurer announces RBA review

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is instituting the first major review of the setting of monetary policy and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) since the 1990s. In the context of Australia facing a complex combination of difficult economic conditions, Chalmers ...

Is the wage price spiral narrative a lie?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2022
Labour costs have played an insignificant role in the recent increase in inflation, according to an Australia Institute analysis. While a plethora of market commentary has expressed concern that aggressive wage growth will elevate inflation levels ...

Lendlease in luxury Circular Quay tower JV

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2022
... Mitsubishi Estate Asia have formed a joint venture to acquire the One Circular Quay development from Chinese investment house AWH for $800 million. The payment is in an up front and deferred consideration, with an additional $50 million payment subject ...

US rocked by inflation disaster

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... his approval ratings are comparatively lower than that of the last 12 US presidents, including Donald Trump. In a White House statement, Biden said: "Tackling inflation is my top priority - we need to make more progress, more quickly, in getting prices ...