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This 34-year-old owns over 200 properties. Renters are fighting back
2+ day, 9+ 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,…...
Are you wealthy enough for private banking? Here are the thresholds
2+ day, 14+ 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....
Echo IQ’s failed trial slashes $600m, dragging down major investors
3+ day, 3+ 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…...
Why investors are letting JB Hi-Fi’s golden goose burn
4+ day, 1+ 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…...
First Guardian and Shield’s lessons from Warren Buffett
3+ day, 23+ 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…...
Companies spruiking AI becoming a red flag for hedge funds
4+ day, 3+ 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…...
Why Australia’s $65b quant investing king is an AI sceptic
4+ day, 4+ 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…...
Metrics’ unsold mega site shapes up as major test for private credit
4+ day, 14+ 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…...
Economists warn of back-to-back rate rises after RBA warning
4+ day, 8+ 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....
Inflation is too high and rates may need to rise, warns RBA’s Hauser
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (111+ words) AFR Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Andrew Hauser says both the economy and inflation are running stronger than expected, forcing the central bank board to weigh whether a further rate rise is needed when it meets later this month,…...