10+ hour, 11+ min ago   (97+ words) afr.com Australia’s stock pickers have been told they must adapt or die as superannuation funds allocate more money to cheaper index-tracking quantitative and passive funds, and threaten their rock-star standing in Australia’s $3.3 trillion public equity market. After a shocking…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (173+ words) AFR Australia was built on the dream of owning property. But as that compact unravels, Eddie Dilleen’s clash with a militant renters union exposes a growing fault line. From public housing to 200 properties: Eddie Dilleen says anyone can do it,…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (126+ words) AFR From skipping call centre queues to lower borrowing rates, private banking comes with major perks. But the price of admission is high. Private banking connects the wealthy with a single point of contact for most of their financial needs....

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (110+ words) AFR Investors in medical software darling Echo IQ have been left nursing significant losses after the drug authority in the United States rejected its application to commercialise its heart disease detection platform, delivering a windfall for hedge funds that had…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (88+ words) AFR JB Hi-Fi is proving itself to be the pin-up of the “softening Australia” sell-off. It’s a lesson all blue chips should heed. JB Hi-Fi shares are tanking harder than Sydney property prices, yet for some reason no one’s talking…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (98+ words) Banned Garry Crole shares First Guardian and Shield’s lessons from Warren Buffett AFR The Oracle of Omaha’s annual letter to shareholders has inspired a litany of copycat newsletters. When Warren Buffett famously declared “it takes 20 years to build a reputation…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (93+ words) AFR Investors listening in on earnings calls over the last month would have been inundated with management eagerly spruiking their company’s pivot toward artificial intelligence – regardless of whether the business actually uses it. About 60 per cent of Australia’s 200 biggest companies…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (80+ words) AFR Morry Waked, the hall of fame fund manager who helped build Australia’s quantitative investing industry, says AI might not be the big win it appears to be. It’s the secret tech war of profit season. In the days before…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (107+ words) afr.com One of the country’s biggest private credit funds is struggling to find a buyer for a giant residential construction site in Sydney’s west after the project developer defaulted on a $270 million loan, leaving the property on the market…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (96+ words) AFR More economists now expect the Reserve Bank board to lift the cash rate when it meets later this month – and potentially again in November – after deputy governor Andrew Hauser said he thought inflation and growth were still too high....