For what it’s worth: why what you pay for an investment is a key driver of its return…and how do valuations look now?

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Key points Starting point valuations – like yields and price to earnings ratios – are key drivers of medium-term investment returns. For growth assets it’s often more complicated, with the... Read more continue reading

Weekly economic and market update – week ending 22 September, 2023

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Investment markets and key developments Global share markets mostly fell over the last week as “higher for longer” interest rate signals from the Fed and some other central banks pushed... Read more continue reading

A Fed “skip” and BoE modest August CPI cast doubt on policy rate hike

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At its recent meeting, the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) opted to “skip” a hike in the policy rate. However, the Fed indicated that more policy... Read more continue reading

Weekly economic and market update – week ending 15 September, 2023

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Investment markets and key developments Global share markets rose over the last week as economic data provided confidence that the Fed won’t have to raise rates again and can avoid... Read more continue reading

Markets see the ECB peak

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Last week, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised its three key policy rates for the tenth consecutive time, opting again to raise rates by 25 basis points (bps). The interest... Read more continue reading

US August CPI and ECB to raise the policy rate 25 bps at Thursday’s meeting

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A slightly higher-than-anticipated core inflation result probably means that a further increase in the policy rate is on the agenda for next week’s Federal Reserve Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)... Read more continue reading

Has the RBA finished rate hikes?

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Key points It’s likely that the RBA’s cash rate has peaked with numerous indicators pointing to slower economic growth and inflationary pressures easing. While the risk in the short term... Read more continue reading

Proof the war on investors is only hurting tenants, as hundreds of thousands of rentals disappear

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Startling new research shows hundreds of thousands of rental properties have been stripped from rental markets around the nation with investors offloading properties in Victoria and Queensland in particular –... Read more continue reading

Weekly economic and market update – week ending 8 September, 2023

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Investment markets and key developments After a couple of weeks of gains global share markets fell again over the last week on renewed concerns about more central bank rate hikes,... Read more continue reading

RBA treads a cautious path

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As was widely expected the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) chose to leave the policy rate unchanged at 4.10 per cent at Tuesday’s meeting. That was appropriate given the most... Read more continue reading