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ASIC chair Longo outs Macquarie

ASIC chair Longo outs Macquarie

In what represents rare highly specific criticism, ASIC chair Joe Longo has identified Macquarie Group as a serial miscreant.
ASIC suing Macquarie Securities over long-standing misreporting

ASIC suing Macquarie Securities over long-standing misreporting

In what ASIC says its 4th action against Macquarie in little more than a year it is suing Macquarie Securities over short selling reporting.
Aussie market pricing in too much pessimism: Franklin Templeton

Aussie market pricing in too much pessimism: Franklin Templeton

Franklin Templeton's fixed income arm resisted the bond market's “disproportionately bearish view" by pointing to "solid" fundamentals.
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Amundi lifts China growth forecasts

Patrick Buncsi 16 May 2025 No Comments

Europe’s leading asset manager has forecast a modest uplift in China’s GDP growth.

Bitcoin surge

Bitcoin could double in value by year’s end: Global X

Patrick Buncsi 16 May 2025 No Comments

Bitcoin could climb as high as US$200,000 by the end of this year – a near doubling of its current value, a leading analyst predicts.

Trade truce or not, tariff pain will hit US in months

Patrick Buncsi 15 May 2025 No Comments

The full inflationary impact of the US’s tariff policies will likely only emerge in the late second quarter of this year.

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Worst-case scenarios mostly off the table with trade truces: Analyst

Yasmine Raso 15 May 2025 No Comments

The United States’ negotiation of trade truces has seen ClearBridge Investments revise its extreme recessionary outlook for the US.

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Investment case for EVs taken over by sustainability, infrastructure

Yasmine Raso 14 May 2025 No Comments

The ‘golden child’ of clean energy investment, EVs, could be bumped from the top as supply increases and other opportunities emerge.

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Time to take advantage of “hidden gems” in Australian small-caps

Yasmine Raso 12 May 2025 No Comments

ICE Investors says Australian small caps could redeem themselves as investors look to diversify amid ongoing market volatility.

Gold prices

US$3-4k the ‘new normal’ for gold price

Patrick Buncsi 12 May 2025 No Comments

Gold bullion trading has hit a new baseline floor price of US$3,000-3,100/oz, with protracted trade conflicts likely to buttress demand.


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Market volatility can be the patient investor’s friend

Financial Newswire Contributor 12 May 2025

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Feeling the pressure of volatile markets? Hollie Briggs shares how Loomis Sayles’ Growth Equity Strategies Team find opportunity in market volatility.

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By combining MLC Life Insurance’s 138-year history with the support of Nippon Life, Acenda will continue to offer competitive and innovative cover.

Duration’s comeback: A better friend for income and credit

Financial Newswire Contributor 8 April 2025

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We think it is time for income and credit investors to accept duration back into the friend circle…

Trade, tariffs, and the market response

Financial Newswire Contributor 21 April 2025

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Global markets have been rattled following proposed tariff implementations. Fidelity experts weigh in across asset classes and lay out their thinking


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Macquarie posts 5% FY NPAT increase

Mike Taylor | 12 May 2025Macquarie Group has positioned itself to face into continuing global uncertainty after posting a 5% increase in full year NPAT to $3.715b.
UK, EU, US

Dust settling but Insto investors underweight $US

Mike Taylor | 9 May 2025The initial dust created by the US tariff regime has begun to settle but institutional investors remain underweight the US$.

GDG enters strategic alliance with BlackRock

Mike Taylor | 8 May 2025In what represents a major competitive development in retirement incomes, GDG and BlackRock have entered into a strategic alliance.
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Failures see ASIC hit Macquarie Bank with license conditions

Mike Taylor | 7 May 2025Long-standing failures by Macquarie Bank have seen it hit with additional license conditions by ASIC.
Leaking dollar bucket

Act now as dollar dominance “dilutes”: deVere Group

Yasmine Raso | 7 May 2025The deVere Group CEO issued a warning to investors who may be underestimating the US dollar's decline, as 'dollar dominance' slowly dies down.
US Federal Reserve

Caution expected from US Fed

Mike Taylor | 7 May 2025There is a general expectation that the volatility and uncertainty created by US tariffs will convince the Federal Reserve to wait and see.
Decline in bond income

Bond income has evaporated. For income-seekers, the solution is nuanced

Patrick Buncsi | 5 May 2025While interest in bond markets has been reinvigorated, many income-focused investors feel shortchanged by plummeting cash distributions.

AUSIEX acquires FIIG

Mike Taylor | 1 May 2025Wholesale trading platform AUSIEX has acquired FIIG in a move which it says will expand its products and services.