Insights

This Best Practice CPD series is published by AdviserVoice and sponsored by Bennelong Funds Management.

2022 is shaping up as potentially another challenging year, with the combined effects of the ongoing COVID crisis together with evolving inflationary pressures presenting governments and central banks around the world with some challenging policy decisions.

According to CoreLogic, Australian house prices increased +22.1%[1] in 2021, led by Australia’s largest city of Sydney (+25.3%).

During his 2020 election campaign, President Biden made commitments to relieve the economic hardship being experienced by a rising percentage of the US population, as well as fast-tracking decarbonisation of the economy to meet the challenge of global warming.

The Australian Government recently released its plan to reach Net Zero emissions by 2050, finally joining the long list of countries already committed to achieving this target by 2050 or sooner.

One of the less than expected by-products of the ‘COVID cycle’ has been the boom in household savings.

Now that is money well spent!

One of the many accepted truisms in real estate is properties with a long WALE (weighted average lease expiry) tend to be lower risk.

Infrastructure, interest rates and inflation: 3 dynamics that are commonly linked, but often in an incomplete manner that does not reflect the full story of their correlation.