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J.P. MAM slashes recession probability to 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... Financial Standard. "Now, we've reduced our probability of a recession down to about 30%." While that is "much better news", he warns that risks remain elevated compared to a normal year. At the beginning of the year, the fund manager was long equities ...

Canadian Securities Exchange to acquire National Stock Exchange of Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
... financial strength and operational stability and bring global expertise to local exchange activities. He said that's great news for participants and competition in Australia's capital markets. "The Canadian experience demonstrates that one exchange size ...

RBA cut expected, but then what?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... to emphasise that developments in the global economy have deteriorated since the April board meeting despite some better news on US and Chinese trade policy earlier this week. "Notwithstanding, at this juncture we think the board will continue to put ...

US, China trade truce 'welcome' news for Australia: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... tariffs on Chinese imports drop from 145% to 30%, while China will cut duties on American goods from 125% to 10%. While welcome news for investors, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said he is not "getting carried away" by the announcement. "It is significant. ...

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

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... Kevin Rudd or Bob Hawke claimed in their maiden election victories - but does this historic win over the Coalition spell bad news for Australia's stock market? History says no. Over the last 45 years, stock market returns have shown little correlation ...

'Lunatic' tariffs can directly hit Australia: Academics

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... Trump's pullback from the Liberation Day announcements as soon as "the bond market started going peculiar." One piece of good news, though, is that in the long run White thinks Trump will be "less disruptive economically than one fears at the moment ...

Aware Super appoints UK private equity lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... along with two associate portfolio managers for infrastructure and property investment. The London appointments follow the news that Damian Graham will succeed Damian Webb as head of international at the end of the year. Reporting to Jenny Newmark, Bulman ...

Platinum to lose $1bn mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... $215 million from the Platinum Trust Funds. The balance was the result of market movements. The mandate loss follows the news that Platinum is seriously considering merging with L1 Capital. L1 Capital recently bought 9.6% of Platinum from its founder ...

MFS expands Australian offering with contrarian strategy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2025
... restructuring, special situations, cyclical or structural adjustments, a temporary impairment of the business model or bad news not reflected in the fundamentals. MFS said the strategy generally selects between 30 and 60 securities that are sector and ...

Iress offloads QuantHouse

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
... months to assist in the transition to BAHA's ownership. Privately owned, Vienna-based BAHA provides market data, financial news, technology and solutions for the financial services industry covering more than 12 million financial instruments. Iress ...