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Access to super for housing is still bad policy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
Superannuation industry associations have once again come out strongly against a policy of allowing first home buyers early access to their superannuation to purchase a home. Following comments this week from Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar, who ...

RBA zeroes in on balance sheets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... risks facing Australia's economy since the global financial crisis that she personally would not speculate on a housing bubble. "What we're really focusing on is to what extent are things like the growth in house prices and the growth in debt signalling ...

Credit where credit is not due

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... previous month. China needs to find a balance between curbing excessive credit growth - to prevent further blowing up the bubble in its asset markets - but not so much that it slows economic growth below the Politburo's target.

China's inflation off target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... able to pass on higher input prices to the consumer. However, lowering interest rates would further stoke the property bubble and put more downward pressure on its already embattled currency.

Japan ripe for investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... "Two years ago there was all this hype about Abenomics and the market got pumped up, to some extent it was little bit of a bubble, but over the last 18 months the Japanese market has adjusted," Koll said. "The tourists, the speculators, they have left ...

Succession planning placed on the backburner

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... (optimistically) it is either a buyer or sellers' market at present. But the undeniable reality is that there is a Baby Boomer bubble of owners trying to sell their small businesses to the next generation but there are not enough Gen Y buyers interested." ...

No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Don't anticipate any further significant easing of monetary policy or any aggressive policy tightening any time soon, AllianceBernstein (AB) has said at a media briefing in Sydney. With its impact having been both minor and unpopular to date, any more ...

Templeton director returns to the fold

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... who recognise that there has only been one period in TGG's history rivalling recent struggles: the tech, media and telco bubble of the late 90s." The fund has reported an 8.6% return p.a. over the past three years, 11.3% over the last five and 2.5% over ...

Disclosure deadlines present super challenge

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
Superannuation has recently received plenty of oxygen in the political atmosphere and fund disclosure is yet another bubble quickly rising. As super funds and regulators work towards several disclosure deadlines in 2017, industry representative groups ...

Low rates signify opportunity for reinvesting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... potentially indicative of what's to come in other capital cities. "I can't predict whether Sydney or Melbourne are in a housing bubble, but what we do know is that the froth is off the top in Perth, driven by all the job losses in the commodities space. ...