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Using super as 'piggybank' would be a 'disaster': Schroder

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... national problem." This comes as Treasurer Jim Chalmers is taking steps to encourage super funds to invest in things like housing, green energy and infrastructure to address the country's productivity problem. Schroder has argued that super fund's priority ...

AXA IM Alts expands affordable housing strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
... to acquire a prime fringe-CBD development site on Adderley Street, Melbourne, to progress its built-to-rent affordable housing strategy further. The acquired site will be developed into a roughly 100-unit residential scheme providing a balanced mix of ...

Exposure to US hitting Aussie companies: UniSuper

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
... outlook statements also suggested a sharp slowdown in revenue growth." As with CSL, James Hardie has been hit by the weak housing construction cycle in the US as well as debt it took on to support a major acquisition earlier this year. "Slowdowns really ...

Inflation hits highest level in over a year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2025
... of easing inflation," ABS head of prices statistics Michelle Marquardt said. The largest contributors to this rise were housing (+3.6%); food and non-alcoholic beverages (+3.0%); and alcohol and tobacco (+6.5%). Annual trimmed mean inflation was 2.7% ...

Singapore investment firm to add 835 student beds in Perth

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
Mapletree Investments has acquired a site in Perth to develop an 835-bed student housing asset, marking its first foray into the local sector. Mapletree acquired the 1398m 2 site from Alceon, which will remain as development manager. Given the limited ...

Chalmers confirms super performance test changes are coming

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... there are no unnecessary obstacles or impediments to institutional investors like super [funds] investing in areas like housing and other areas where there's clearly a national need." The announcement was welcomed by the Association of Superannuation ...

Grattan calls for large scale tax reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... phase: this inequity in tax treatment extends to incomes in working life as well, through the way we treat investment in housing, and the use of trusts and private companies." Sathanapally said while 95% of people pay a similar tax rate for similar incomes ...

ASIC to review RG97 to boost property supply

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... all transactional and operational costs associated with an investment. When it comes to unlisted property, like domestic housing supply, stamp duty costs must be disclosed as a transaction cost, while for listed property it is rolled into the overall ...

Some Australians being taxed more on super than pay: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... complex system settings will place increasing pressure on the retirement income system. Without reform, the gender and housing wealth gaps will widen, and the system's sustainability could be undermined, SMC said. SMC chief executive Misha Schubert said ...

Invesco acquires RetireAustralia for $845m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... communities where more older Australians can live and age well, meeting the country's growing need for high-quality seniors housing and care as we address evolving demographics." The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to complete ...