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Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
... governments around the world couldn't spend their way into a recovery forever without hitting some sort of a roadblock -interest rates on their borrowings to shore up their domestic economies would go up. And interest rates have risen. The yield on ten-year ...

Australian billionaires double fortunes during pandemic: Oxfam

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... largest economies, the US and China, starting to consider policies that reduce inequality, including by imposing higher tax rates on the rich and acting against monopolies. "This provides us with some measured hope for a new economic consensus to emerge," ...

Not all tech created equal: Principal

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... seen technology stocks become collateral damage and underperforming in the broad market, the investment firm warns. With rates biased higher over the coming months, PGI chief strategist Seema Shah said that investors should be prepared for parts of the ...

DIY investors embrace Meta Platforms

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
... investors and dominate eToro's top 10 list of most-held stocks, despite fears over rising inflation and higher interest rates. The Bank of England became the first major central bank last month to raise rates from record lows, while the US Federal Reserve ...

Aussie investors retain home bias: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JAN 2022
... slowdown (47% cite, up from 21% a year ago), property prices (28%, up from 15%), inflation (25%, up from 11%), and interest rates (24%, up from 4%). The past year has also seen the typical portfolio lighter on cash related investments, direct shares ...

Inflation to persist in 2022: Aviva

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JAN 2022
... the target range - about two or three quarters - is expected in the near term. "That raises the bar for tightening policy rates compared to previous cycles, particularly while wage growth remains subdued. Given that, we don't expect the RBA to raise ...

Pandemic sees boom in voluntary super contributions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 JAN 2022
... release of super (ERS) program early in the pandemic are still lagging. This group of individuals had voluntary contribution rates 15% behind the wider population. This group was still 14% more likely to make a voluntary contribution than prior to the ...

IFM, Citi pour $300m into Household Capital

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... efficient, more available and more reliable for retirees. This funding facility delivers Australian retirees low interest rates which mean more access to their home equity retirement funding." Household Capital chair Nick Sherry added: "The wealth of ...

Sustainability will send some broke: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... globalisation and robotics gave corporations an advantage over labor. "But in the last business cycle, where policymakers lowered rates to the zero-bound to promote hiring, chief financial officers opted for buybacks instead, culminating in the widest ...

Knight Frank releases 2022 outlook

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
... policy by historical standards, which will keep bond yields anchored at relatively low levels. "Significantly higher interest rates would quickly prove to be counterproductive, dampening demand without addressing the cost inflation pressures that are ...