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Major climate group suspends operations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
An alliance of financiers with over US$57.5 trillion in assets has bowed to US political pressure and hit pause after the exit of the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock. Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM), which has over 300 members, announced it ...

Dixon Advisory clients should be heard at Senate inquiry: Anderson

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... advisers across the country had recommended the URF and related products," Anderson said. Anderson also expressed an interest in obtaining more insights from clients, including why most clients chose to stay with the group when they were transferred ...

ANZ, Macquarie bring forward rate cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
Both ANZ and Macquarie have moved their interest rate cut predictions forward to February from May following last week's inflation data. ANZ head of Australian economics Adam Boyton said the bank was expecting core inflation to drop to 3.2%, down from ...

Insignia takeover heats up, Bain Capital ups bid

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2025
... largest shareholder with a 12.5% stake, according to Insignia's 2024 annual report, followed by Hostplus' 9.1% interest. Tanarra, which now has about a 15% stake, wants Insignia to execute on its own growth plans, when commenting on Bain Capital's ...

Australian economy on the up in 2025: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... 32 years during 2024. Vanguard said this improvement will come despite the overhang of sticky inflation and elevated interest rates. Additionally, it predicts the core inflation rate will fall to 2.5% during 2025, and that the Reserve Bank of Australia's ...

Managed funds industry winners and losers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are still winning the contest for net flows against unit trusts, according to Rainmaker Information's 2024: The year in wealth management webinar. ETFs attracted around $2 billion in net inflows a month last year whereas ...

Bitcoin returns 147%, outshines bull market

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... environment of greater certainty and innovation," bitcoin.com.au chief executive Adrian Przelozny said. "We hope this renewed interest will prompt Treasury to accelerate the drafting of crypto regulations in Australia." Investors in gold and China equities ...

Insignia denies yet another takeover bid

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... In response, Insignia's board said it was considering the indicative proposal to assess whether it is in the best interest of shareholders to engage with CC Capital. "There is no certainty that the indicative proposal will result in a binding offer ...

Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
Investors have head into the New Year with many of the same concerns they had at the start of 2024, with interest rates and inflation to dominate once again. Last November, RBA governor Michele Bullock indicated the central bank views its settings as ...

Chalmers boasts inflation data, experts divided

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... 'last mile' of getting core inflation all the way sustainably back to target." Bloxham said he is not anticipating an interest rate cut until Q2 2025 with a 25% chance of no cuts at all this year.