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US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
The US stock market has returned nearly twice as much as international markets since the Global Financial Crisis, which subsequently resulted in its share of global equity market capitalisation approaching almost 70% by the end of last year. History ...

Future Fund muscles past annual target return, lags in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... Albanese and treasurer Jim Chalmers, "that model has now been decisively overhauled." With public debt soaring, a housing crisis that's hitting the younger generation, and a climate emergency demanding decisive action, Global SWF said the Labor government ...

Michael Dwyer joins impact fund board

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... such as superannuation funds, family offices and philanthropists. Reflecting on the intensifying housing affordability crisis, the new chair noted that back in 2018, Sydney's median house price was $1 million. Today, it has surged to $1.69 million ...

Tariff impact on super 'profoundly worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2025
... it was important for members - particularly those in the accumulation phase - to ride out the volatility. "The current crisis, it's man-made. And it's made pretty much by a single man. We know what the solution is here; the solution is for rational people ...

Investors warned to sell hybrids before phase out

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... capital instruments in December 2024, in a move it said would simplify and improve the effectiveness of bank capital in a crisis. The move was one of several changes APRA introduced in response to lessons from 2023's overseas banking turmoil where several ...

Chalmers boosts Help to Buy scheme, construction sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... housing construction sector is lagging Australia's productivity levels by 49% and is helping fuel the affordable housing crisis. The study calculates the number of dwellings completed per hour by housing construction workers has declined by 53% since ...

What to expect in the 2025 Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... the Budget very responsibly from here." An adviser poll conducted by Viridian Advisory revealed that the cost-of-living crisis, the current housing shortage, and aged care policies are dominating client concerns in the lead up to the Budget. While 82% ...

Study finds 5000 European ESG funds investing in fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... BP via ESG funds is safe, the NGOs said. "Companies that pursue fossil fuel expansion projects in the midst of a climate crisis are jeopardising our future. Their presence in ESG funds violates the very concept of sustainability," Urgewald finance researcher ...

Skills gap crisis costing Australia $3.5bn a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... significant economic knock-on effect across the value chain. This reflects recent research that found the Australian skills gap crisis is costing the country $3.5 billion a year, or $9 million a day. The OECD estimates that, by 2028, the global job skills ...

Tranche 2 is coming before the election: Jones

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... reforms have been a highlight of his career in politics, but he sees that work as being the first necessary step to "fix the crisis". However, he also said there is still a way to go until the financial advice industry is where it should be. "The big ...