Documents seen by MWM indicate that the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is investigating the University of Wollongong. Stephanie Tran reports. MWM understands ICAC officers attended the University of Wollongong last week and seized laptops as part of an investigation amid mounting allegations of governance failures and conflicts of
Undoubtedly, your email inboxes are full of market predictions for the year ahead. Yet, forecasting the short term is exceeding difficult. I’ve found that it often helps to zoom out and look at long-term data to guide investment decisions.
A new report from Deutsche Bank, aptly titled ‘The Ultimate Guide to Long-term Investing’, can help with that. It ...
Queensland resource recovery group BMI Group has snapped up the assets of the failed Rino Recycling business, in which the Clean Energy Finance Corporation invested about $70 million and ended up with an exposure of about $100 million of taxpayer funds.
Rino, based at Eagle Farm Road at Pinkenba, about 10 kilometres east of Brisbane, collapsed after ...
In December 2023, I made a bold prediction: returns from Australian shares would handily beat those from residential property over the next 10 years.
In that article, I explained how Australian housing was ludicrously priced, up to 40% overvalued. And that property was far more expensive than the ‘Magnificent Seven’ US tech stocks, which were richly ...
Every few weeks I get an email from somebody who’s been approached by a property promoter offering to “build them wealth” through an investment home. These people — often called property spruikers — make their money not from investment success but from the generous commissions they load into the deal.
They tell the potential victim that the guaranteed ...
On two big trends, President Donald Trump may well be right:
Nations must rebalance from aspirational wants towards foundational needs.
Nations can no longer depend on global support, so they must rebuild self-reliance. Trump’s own policies have accelerated these trends and made them more visible, but the seeds of both shifts predate his presidency by ...
Heightened geopolitical and economic uncertainty combined with a weaker US dollar have driven investor demand for gold as investors seek hedges against volatility and inflation, creating significant price momentum in 2025. With bond markets lacklustre and equities highly concentrated, investors across all regions from West to East have been party to ...
In a series of recent articles on firstlinks.com.au, Clime's John Abernethy has repeatedly returned to a favourite target: defined benefit (DB) pensions in the Commonwealth public sector. His commentary often features references to “hidden liabilities”, questionable forecasts, alleged actuarial errors and warnings of a looming fiscal crisis. He has ...
Airports have seen phenomenal traffic growth as people prioritise travel and experiences in the face of cost-of-living pressures.
The rate of growth in the near-term is seemingly not a demand story, but rather a question of whether airlines and aircraft manufacturers can keep pace with an insatiable demand to travel.
In the medium-term we expect demand ...
For two decades, the search box has been the undisputed gateway to the internet, a frictionless tool embedded in our daily lives. But this familiar landscape is undergoing a transformational change, driven by the rapid emergence of Generative AI (GenAI).
This evolution is forcing us to reconsider not just how we find information, but how the companies ...
“Bondi deserves better … Australia deserves better”. David Tyler examines ASIO’s security failure in Australia’s deadliest terror attack. While none of this will salve the hurt, ease the trauma of those recovering in hospital, or console the families grieving the loss of loved ones at Bondi, we owe them, and
COMMENT: We wish the rest of the built environment was as infinitely regenerating as the moves to cut and curb the National Construction Code seem to be.
At the last federal election, then Opposition Leader Peter Dutton threatened to freeze the periodic improvements to the code for 10 years, inspired no doubt by the South Australian government that ...
Documents seen by MWM indicate that the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is investigating the University of Wollongong. Stephanie Tran reports. MWM understands ICAC officers attended the University of Wollongong last week and seized laptops as part of an investigation amid mounting allegations of governance failures and conflicts of
Undoubtedly, your email inboxes are full of market predictions for the year ahead. Yet, forecasting the short term is exceeding difficult. I’ve found that it often helps to zoom out and look at long-term data to guide investment decisions.
A new report from Deutsche Bank, aptly titled ‘The Ultimate Guide to Long-term Investing’, can help with that. It ...
Queensland resource recovery group BMI Group has snapped up the assets of the failed Rino Recycling business, in which the Clean Energy Finance Corporation invested about $70 million and ended up with an exposure of about $100 million of taxpayer funds.
Rino, based at Eagle Farm Road at Pinkenba, about 10 kilometres east of Brisbane, collapsed after ...
In December 2023, I made a bold prediction: returns from Australian shares would handily beat those from residential property over the next 10 years.
In that article, I explained how Australian housing was ludicrously priced, up to 40% overvalued. And that property was far more expensive than the ‘Magnificent Seven’ US tech stocks, which were richly ...
Every few weeks I get an email from somebody who’s been approached by a property promoter offering to “build them wealth” through an investment home. These people — often called property spruikers — make their money not from investment success but from the generous commissions they load into the deal.
They tell the potential victim that the guaranteed ...
On two big trends, President Donald Trump may well be right:
Nations must rebalance from aspirational wants towards foundational needs.
Nations can no longer depend on global support, so they must rebuild self-reliance. Trump’s own policies have accelerated these trends and made them more visible, but the seeds of both shifts predate his presidency by ...
Heightened geopolitical and economic uncertainty combined with a weaker US dollar have driven investor demand for gold as investors seek hedges against volatility and inflation, creating significant price momentum in 2025. With bond markets lacklustre and equities highly concentrated, investors across all regions from West to East have been party to ...
In a series of recent articles on firstlinks.com.au, Clime's John Abernethy has repeatedly returned to a favourite target: defined benefit (DB) pensions in the Commonwealth public sector. His commentary often features references to “hidden liabilities”, questionable forecasts, alleged actuarial errors and warnings of a looming fiscal crisis. He has ...
Airports have seen phenomenal traffic growth as people prioritise travel and experiences in the face of cost-of-living pressures.
The rate of growth in the near-term is seemingly not a demand story, but rather a question of whether airlines and aircraft manufacturers can keep pace with an insatiable demand to travel.
In the medium-term we expect demand ...
For two decades, the search box has been the undisputed gateway to the internet, a frictionless tool embedded in our daily lives. But this familiar landscape is undergoing a transformational change, driven by the rapid emergence of Generative AI (GenAI).
This evolution is forcing us to reconsider not just how we find information, but how the companies ...
“Bondi deserves better … Australia deserves better”. David Tyler examines ASIO’s security failure in Australia’s deadliest terror attack. While none of this will salve the hurt, ease the trauma of those recovering in hospital, or console the families grieving the loss of loved ones at Bondi, we owe them, and
COMMENT: We wish the rest of the built environment was as infinitely regenerating as the moves to cut and curb the National Construction Code seem to be.
At the last federal election, then Opposition Leader Peter Dutton threatened to freeze the periodic improvements to the code for 10 years, inspired no doubt by the South Australian government that ...
