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Economics

Tasmania leads economic recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
Tasmania continues to be the best-performing economy thanks to a booming housing market, a new report shows.

Tight labour market not yet producing wage growth

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
Wages growth remains subdued ahead of this week's quarterly Consumer Price Index release, despite a tight labour market.

Investors should embrace alternatives: J.P. Morgan

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
With an expectation that public market returns will be hard to come by this year, J. P. Morgan is urging investments to embrace megatrends playing out across alternative asset classes.

Inflation to retreat in 2022: Fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
Investors should not fear high levels of inflation as it will diminish by the end of 2022, one fund manager predicts.

Macquarie AM reveals outlook for 2022

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
Macquarie Asset Management has revealed the key themes set to shape the investment landscape and performance of key asset classes in 2022.

ESR Group completes ARA acquisition

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
ESR Cayman Limited (ESR) completed its acquisition of ARA Asset Management (ARA), including its subsidiary LOGOS.

Positive hiring outlook for 2022: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
Australian business leaders are overwhelmingly confident about their growth prospects in the coming year, according to new research from Robert Half.

Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
Throwing more money to shore up economic activity only makes the fire of inflation burn even more. Then again, not doing so to tame escalating price increases risks sending employment and incomes and profits and economic growth and investment fortunes ...

PIMCO lowers GDP growth rate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022
Australia, together with other rich countries, can expect economic activity to slow down in 2022 as coronavirus outbreaks continue to put a spanner in the works.

Inflation to persist in 2022: Aviva

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JAN 2022
Inflation will dampen Australia's economy in 2022 as it continues to soar significantly higher than expected, according to Aviva Investors.