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Cash rate hits 4.1%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
... (REIA) president Hayden Groves said that the RBA may stick to its economics, but it is not immune to political pressures as small businesses and young families with a mortgage struggle with another rate increase. "The pace of rate increases leaves the ...

Advisers outsourcing to amplify investment capabilities: Mason Stevens

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
A Mason Stevens whitepaper says that financial advisers are increasingly embracing outsourcing of their investment capability. Mason Stevens said the main economics of outsourcing are the time freed up for the adviser to nurture client relationships ...

Senate Committee rethinks franking credit changes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
... Bragg raised the alarm over how the proposed changes might damage investment levels in Australia. "The proposal is bad for small and medium business, bad for entrepreneurs and bad for investors," Bragg said. "Companies will be forced to take on more ...

Quality stocks outperform on average: Bell AM

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
... sheet companies." Bell acknowledged that growth stocks have also been doing well but that success has been limited to a small pool of names. "Only five names have accounted for 47% of the total return of the MSCI World Index this year," he said. "Apple ...

Macquarie AM wins manager of the year: ILAs

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... Fund Advisors Dimensional Australian Large Company Trust Income Focused Vertium Asset Management Vertium Equity Income Fund Small Cap First Sentier Investors First Sentier Wholesale Australian Small Companies Fund ESG U Ethical U Ethical Australian Equities ...

Wage increases to offset more rate hikes: Experts

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... it will add more pressure to some of their employers. ACCI chief executive Andrew McKellar said the lift is a "blow" to small businesses. "Today's decision will come as a hammer blow for the 260,000 small and family-owned businesses who pay minimum and ...

Frontier overhauls research function

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... markets," said Frontier. "For many years, the investors we have worked with have typically chosen to allocate relatively small amounts of capital to both private debt and private equity. "While Frontier has researched both areas in the past, we are boosting ...

The Australian small-cap conundrum: VanEck

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Australian investors have traditionally been attracted to Australian small caps, yet locally, the asset class has consistently underperformed when compared to its global counterpart. A new research paper released by VanEck titled Global small-caps ...

Heatmaps drive efficiencies, more consolidation: Cole

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... outcome. "We still have a landscape in super where we have 118 APRA regulated super funds as at 30th June 2022," Cole said. "A small number of those, or the top 10, have roughly 50% of members and assets." If you look at it the other way, Cole said ...

APRA probes super fund payments to unions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023
... questioning Cole, Senator Andrew Bragg alluded to a specific instance involving a $2.5 million payment form a "relatively small" super fund to the CFMEU. However, Cole expressed a commitment to conducting the investigations properly, respecting due process ...