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Industrial property funds draw SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... property, and big consolidated companies as tenants, such as Coles or Australia Post, Stacker said. The expected slowing of GDP growth to 3 per cent this year is not likely to deeply affect the property market, even though it is tightly linked with the ...

Simple diversification better than 'smart beta'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... become less extreme, and if smaller countries can stop being so competitive. "The periphery countries are falling behind [in GDP growth] so the level of GDP as a whole is well below its previous peak," he explained.

Beans means Buffet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... (pardon the pun, or is this a pun?) by news of continuing contraction in the economies of the Eurozone and Japan. Eurozone real GDP dropped by 0.6% in the fourth quarter - the fifth straight quarter of decline - following a 0.1% fall in the third while ...

All Ords at 5000 overvalued but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... have it in black and white. In its quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy (released on 7 February), the RBA declared that: "GDP growth is expected to be below trend at around 2A1/2 per cent over 2013 before picking up to just under 3 per cent over 2014. ...

Super fund return expectations unrealistic

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... change in fundamentals. "There's still little earnings growth, the banks are showing no lending growth and we've downgraded our GDP forecasts for the Australian economy over this year and next from 3.5% to 2.4%," he said. Despite the trend towards what ...

Australia becomes fourth largest pension pool

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
Australia now has the world's fourth largest pension pool after superannuation assets relative to GDP rose to 101% in 2012, according to a Towers Watson report. According to the Towers Watson Global Pension Assets Study, Australian superannuation assets ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... growing stronger than expected this year. The Philippines and Taiwan just reported better than forecasts December quarter GDP growth and Singapore posting the lowest unemployment rate in five years. There are positive signs in Japan too. Retail sales ...

Super concessions cost $32bn in 2011-12

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... superannuation tax concessions is expected to climb 48% to $45 billion. The 11% annual increase contrasts with inflation and GDP growth that is expected to be within the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) mandated 2-3% band. Superannuation tax concession ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... catching up. We've seen the improving dynamics in the China and the US recently - yes, yes, except for the US fourth quarter GDP report (but that was the state of the economy in the last three months of last year, things have continued to improve since ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... the "Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU)" forecast, India will end the year 2012 with a budget deficit equivalent to 6.1% of GDP and a current account deficit amounting to 4.2% of national output. The government's recent efforts to revive economic activity ...