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The economic outlook: global, national and local

In this economic update from the Chief Economist at Suncorp Group, Paul Brennan covers: - History suggests a US soft landing will be hard to achieve, even with the Fed starting to ease this month. - Markets are not priced for a recession, even a mild one would likely see a material correction in share prices and other risk assets. - The Chinese economy is too weak to offset the effects of a US recession. - Australia faces a challenging 18 months, even if it avoids a recession, as inflation is limiting the RBA’s degrees of freedom and China isn’t coming to the rescue

An economic update - looking into 2024 locally and globally

Guest speaker, the Chief Economist at BOQ, Mr. Peter Munckton. Peter has held this position for almost ten years. Prior to that, he worked at the Federal Treasury in Canberra, Bankers Trust and the CBA. He co-authored reports on the Australian and Chinese financial systems that gained significant international media attention.

Generating Income for Retirement – Risks and Opportunities Amid Rising Interest Rates

Generating income has always been important for investors, particular retirees. With living costs rising dramatically, certainty of income has rarely been more critical. The risks taken by investors to generate income are commonly misunderstood and credit markets are often overlooked as a source for generating stable income. In this presentation Adam Scully will discuss how investors can access credit markets to enhance diversity in their portfolios as well as producing robust returns and strong income.

Economic Update and Q+A

David Bassanese is the Chief Economist of Betashares. Betashares is an Australian exchange traded product manager with $28 billlion dollars of funds under manager. He is the ex-federal treasury escapee and spent time sipping coffee at the Paris-based OECD. Ex-columnist at the Australian Financial Review and co-founder of a Paris based Aussie theme cafe. He is the author of Australia's most comprehensive book on exchange traded funds 'The Australian ETF Guide: How to invest more cheaply simply and effectively using exchange traded funds (ETFs)'.

The Bigger Picture - June 2026

Read our latest market commentary, The Bigger Picture, which includes some timely investment lessons from Simon Turner's Camino experience in Portugal and Spain.

Macro Investor Education

5 June 2026

· Simon Turner

· 5 MIN READ

The Bigger Picture - May 2026

April confirmed what markets had begun to suspect: the global macro backdrop has changed. Higher geopolitical risk is now structurally entrenched. Markets have quickly adjusted to this unfortunate new reality across all asset classes. Geopolitical risk has reasserted itself as a primary driver of energy prices, inflation expectations, and capital flows. Investors still anchored to the old world of low inflation, cheap money, and frictionless globalisation risk being structurally mispositioned.

Investor Education Macro Investment Themes

3 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 5 MIN READ

The Longer-Term Consequences of the US–Israel–Iran War

By now, most of us have realised that the US-Israel-Iran war will have longer-term consequences beyond recent volatility. It’s accelerating a structural shift in global markets defined by tighter energy supply, more persistent inflation, and the fragmentation of trade and capital flows.

Macro Investor Education ETF Managed Fund

3 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

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Macro

The economic outlook: global, national and local

The economic outlook: global, national and local

The economic outlook: global, national and local

An economic update - looking into 2024 locally and globally

Economic Update and Q&A, November 2023

Generating Income for Retirement – Risks and Opportunities Amid Rising Interest Rates

Economic Update and Q+A

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