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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 ...

Finance news foretells stock market volatility: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
... 2000 and December 2022 and linked it to fluctuations in the S&P 500. They found that disruption-related terms such as "crisis", "recession", and "loss" exhibited strong contemporaneous correlations with volatility spikes. Conversely, they found that ...

RBA powers deemed 'last resort' for critical financial infrastructure fallout

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
... proposed draft guidance for the Australian Clearing and Settlement (CS) Facility Resolution Regime. The RBA was provided with "crisis resolution powers" in response to a threat posed to the continuity and stability of a domestic CS facility licensee ...

Msquared Capital secures $150m warehouse facility with Australian bank

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... for asset preservation events but liquidity as well," he said. "Many investors who invested during the Global Financial Crisis want to ensure their funds are not locked up for extended periods, as private markets are often illiquid in nature and they ...

Small construction firms drag productivity: CEDA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
Australia's laggard construction productivity and deepening housing crisis have been made worse by the small businesses that dominate the sector, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) says. While several factors have contributed ...