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Aussie investors entering 'regime shift': VanEck

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2026
... underpinned years of bank outperformance, including falling interest rates, low inflation and uninterrupted housing credit growth had reversed simultaneously. "We could be seeing the start of a regime shift," Chesler said. "Australian investors may need ...

APRA's fresh guardrails to impact property investors

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... with a robust labour market suggests a shift in the financial risk cycle. These periods often coincide with higher credit growth, rising indebtedness and riskier lending activity, and indeed, we are seeing an increase in loans at high DTI, particularly ...

Australia dominates APAC real estate private credit raisings

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... South Korea (11%) and Japan (5%). The Knight Frank report projects there will be US$90 to US$110 billion in private credit growth over the next three years across Australia, Hong Kong SAR, India and South Korea. Australia is expected to drive nearly ...

Salter Brothers acquires Causeway AM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... industry and believe they will complement our credit capabilities and will be instrumental in driving our private credit growth ambitions," Salter said. Salter Brothers managing director, debt capital markets David O'Connor added that they have already ...

ASIC to review RG97 to boost property supply

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... encourage internal management meaning lower costs for superannuation members as well as continuing to support safe credit growth for business borrowers," Longo said. According to the Property Council of Australia, excluding stamp duty from RG97 disclosure ...

APRA maintains policy amid uncertain environment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... decision to keep the settings steady, APRA said it took account of high household indebtedness and a pick-up in credit growth, persistent cost-of-living pressures, a weakening jobs market and heightened geopolitical risks. Balanced against these risks ...

RBA feels 'not enough has changed'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024
... "insufficiently restrictive". Members noted that the easing in financial conditions over prior months and the pick-up in credit growth have made that scenario "somewhat more plausible". The board also discussed what scenarios could require the cash rate ...

ANZ, Westpac 'the cheapest majors': Morningstar

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024
... their prices," he said. He also noted that reduced borrowing capacity and persistent inflation are constraining credit growth, despite higher wages and strong population growth. "Interest rate increases weakened consumer confidence and significantly ...

Aussie banks deliver record profits in FY23

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2023
... banks. "On the one hand, the worst fears about the economy and the impact on the banks have not yet come to pass. Credit growth remained healthy if slowing, and households and businesses are under strain but appear to be, on average, coping. So far ...

RBA hikes interest rates to 10-year high, flags further increases

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2023
... especially surprising to us given a range of softer domestic data recently - across retail sales, house prices, loans and credit growth, and employment and unemployment; the RBA didn't mention this," UBS said. UBS now forecasts a 25-basis point interest ...
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