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Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... announcement," he said. Chinese stocks have also turned a corner, outperforming the US market year-to-date, for the first time since 2017. But it remains to be seen whether this rally will extend into 2025, Jocum said. He added that other emerging economies ...

Unemployment drops below 4%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... dropping from the previous average monthly increases of around 0.3% between June and October 2024. "This month marks the first time in six months when hours worked growth did not match employment growth," Taylor said. "Despite the slight fall in hours ...

Eyes on gaming, Chinese tech in 2025: Orbis

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
... reason for that comes back to the software side... it seems quite likely that what Nintendo is going to do is, for the first time, have true backward compatibility with the prior cycle, meaning the Switch 2 will be able to play Switch games, and that's ...

Adviser exam pass rate improves

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
... improvement from its previous outing in August, where only 62% passed. Of the 289 candidates, 207 sat the exam for the first time. To date, 21,637 individuals have sat the exam and over 20,060 (92%) have passed. That said, there is now less than 16,000 ...

Equity Trustees completes AET integration

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... SuperConcepts the new administrator for the funds. "From a financial perspective, we will see the full benefit for the first time in FY26, but much of that will come through in the second half of FY25," O'Brien said. Equity Trustees' chair Carol Schwartz ...

Magellan launches third Vinva fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... of the deepening relationship between Vinva and Magellan," Magellan managing director Sophia Rahmani said. "It's the first time we've brought a long-short product to market, and our distribution team has witnessed a strong positive response from clients ...

Prime Super refreshes executive lineup

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... viable fund and be able to continue investing in improved member education and services," she said, speaking for the first time since taking the helm of the $7.5 billion super fund. The revamp sees the retirement of two long-serving executives from distribution ...

Investors plan to continue private markets love affair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... debt will see 35%. About 37% expect to invest more in secondaries, and about 25% of these would be investing for the first time. Interestingly, while private markets managers recorded the highest satisfaction levels from investors, private equity has ...

Wages grow 3.5% for the year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
... data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ABS head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt said this was the first time annual wage growth had fallen below 4% since the June 2023 quarter. Commonwealth Bank senior economist Stephen Wu said the ...

Perpetual reveals decade of philanthropy insights

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2024
Perpetual, for the first time, has laid bare a decade's worth of data, unveiling insights into the philanthropic and charity sectors. In a special edition of its annual philanthropy insights report, the wealth manager said despite incremental changes ...