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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 proposed draft guidance for the Australian Clearing and Settlement (CS) Facility Resolution Regime.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 ...

Cost-of-living, unaffordable advice fuels financial stress: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... works, Australians feel as though their financial situation is in dire straits as many struggle with the cost-of-living crisis and do not know the best place to seek financial advice, new surveys reveal. One survey from MLC conducted by McCrindle found ...

ETF industry growth streak continues, shatters net inflow records

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... within 48 hours. That sent the VIX Index to levels unseen since the pandemic panic, and prior to that, the Global Financial Crisis. In April, the most recent reporting date, net inflows totalled US$157 billion. A substantial portion (US$88.3 billion) ...

Inside Colonial First State's fund manager selection overhaul

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... to deliver their outperformance. "It's been a pretty horrible period for value managers since the Global Financial Crisis." The team has also tried to minimise "filling buckets for the sake of it." Historically, CFS would pair a growth manager with ...

Macquarie raked over the coals again by ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... first enforcement action over short sale reporting since regulations were introduced in 2009 following the Global Financial Crisis. Macquarie, however, is no stranger to an ASIC crackdown - this latest action is its fourth regulatory hit in little over ...

Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... rates over three decades, four rounds of US Federal Reserve quantitative earnings during and after the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, lower tax rates, and more recently, investment hype surrounding artificial intelligence. He acknowledged ...

Labor vs Liberal: Which government is better for Australian stocks?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... benefits were largely external to domestic politics. Meanwhile, Rudd took office in the early days of the global financial crisis which had an enormous bearing on the woeful stock market performance of his tenure." He said a better benchmark might be ...