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Phil King departs with a message for Canberra, and a bubble warning
2+ week, 6+ day ago (142+ words) AFR Regal Partners co-founder Phil King is on the road to retirement. But he’s got some pointed messages about the Australian market, AI and how funds management is evolving. You know you’ve been around markets for a long time when…...
This public sector asset manager takes a look at PE’s bargain bin
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (97+ words) AFR TCorp manages about $127 billion for the NSW government, and is preparing to join the world of private equity to broaden its exposure to artificial intelligence. Here’s something we didn’t expect. TCorp, the NSW government’s investment arm, is finally ready…...
Pretty profit, ugly doll hands this fundie a monster 650pc gain
8+ hour, 49+ min ago (72+ words) AFR If you told a room full of cautious fund managers in early 2024 that the trade of the year would involve an ugly-cute, teeth-baring monster doll from Beijing, they’d have politely shown you the door. Sentiment towards China then wasn’t…...
Housing’s Mr 18.6pc is pure fiction but is still scaring markets
1+ week, 3+ day ago (97+ words) AFR The phantom number refuses to go away and is haunting Australia’s economy, investors, boardroom and government. Mr 18.6 per cent is this week’s barbecue stopper. Wesfarmers management can’t go into a post-results meeting without being asked about it, economists can’t…...
AFR Chanticleer podcast: Macquarie’s new CEO, when good news is bad news and China’s AI shock
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (119+ words) The chooks discuss the growing sense of panic inside Australia’s property industry, and look ahead to the next big test for markets. This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald examine the growing sense of panic inside…...
Warsh just set up another pressure test for markets – in 18 days time
2+ week, 1+ day ago (84+ words) AFR Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh reassured markets he’s ready, willing and able to fight inflation. But in doing so, he may have boxed himself in. It’s apt that Kevin Warsh’s first speech as Federal Reserve chairman at the central…...
Lessons from America’s drip-drip debt crisis
2+ week, 4+ day ago (135+ words) AFR Since cutting spending on pensions and healthcare for the elderly is difficult and undesirable, this and future US administrations should look at raising revenues in the least damaging way. Make no mistake, the US is suffering a debt crisis....
Australia’s $1 trillion debt milestone comes at a risky time
3+ week, 3+ day ago (70+ words) AFR The federal government’s $1 trillion debt milestone comes at a risky time as interest rates on government borrowing hit multi-decade highs in global bond markets. But it is not the relatively moderate level of Australia’s federal gross debt – 33 per cent…...
RBA and Anthony Albanese should be worried about soft commodities surge from a perfect storm 20 years in the making
1+ week, 6+ day ago (117+ words) This market move is 20 years in the making. RBA and PM should worry AFR While markets have been obsessed with oil and artificial intelligence, the oldest trade in the book has been on a tear that is equal parts fascinating…...
Public markets have lost their nerve. PE is dining out on the fallout
3+ week, 5+ day ago (115+ words) AFR Brookfield joins the list of private equity firms raiding the ASX’s bargain-basement with a $4.1 billion bid for plumbing supplies group Reliance Worldwide. So much for 2026 being the year of private equity exits – they are in full acquisition mode, swooping…...