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Top 10% of households home to 15 times more wealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
The average household wealth of Australia's richest 10% increased by 84% in the past 20 years, while that of the lowest 60% increased significantly less. A new report from ACOSS and UNSW Sydney's Poverty and Inequality Partnership - titled Inequality ...

Perennial launches new investment fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
Perennial has announced the launch of its latest private company investment fund for wholesale investors. The new Perennial Private to Public Evergreen Fund, called PPP+, is an evergreen version of Perennial's existing Perennial Private to Public (PPP) ...

Commercial real estate optimism ticks up

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2024
The overall sentiment of global corporate real estate leaders has improved to its highest level since Q2 2022, according to a survey by Knight Frank. The real estate group asked the leaders to rate several sentiments around growth, portfolio, and workplace. ...

Income inequality elevated, spikes: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
Income inequality is too high and continues to balloon in 60% of low- and middle-income countries studied by Oxfam International, tipping the Gini coefficient well above acceptable levels. Oxfam found that income inequality is rampant among 64 out of ...

The Aussie wealthtech firms that are 'most innovative'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
The annual list of the world's most innovative wealthtech companies was recently released, with several Australian firms making the cut. Iress, GBST, Practifi, Lumiant, and Ignition Advice were all on the list, which was selected by a panel of industry ...

Life insurers struggle with code compliance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2024
Life insurers continue to breach their own compliance code with more than 12,000 instances recorded, yet the body overseeing their conduct fears this is likely under-reported. The Life Code Compliance Committee (LCCC) saw another increase in the number ...

Morningstar warns of stretched valuations in Australian equities

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
The Australian equity market is slightly overvalued following a strong rally, according to Morningstar's Q2 2024 outlook. The S&P/ASX 200 benchmark has climbed about 15% from its October 2023 lows to hover around 7800, signalling what Morningstar called ...

IMF flags concerns over 'risky' private credit market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2024
The International Monetary Find (IMF) has raised concerns over the growing private credit market, which topped US$2.1 trillion in assets and committed capital globally last year. The private credit market, which specialises in non-bank financial institutions ...

GSFM partners with Eastspring to deliver new EM offering

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024
GSFM has partnered with Eastspring Investments to distribute its Global Emerging Markets (GEM) Dynamic Strategy in the Australian market and will be available to institutional, wholesale and family office investors. GSFM chief executive Damien McIntyre ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman dies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author, has died aged 90. Kahneman was an Israeli American psychologist whose research into human behaviour upended economics. Kahneman's research demonstrated humans would often abandon logic and ...
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