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NAB dispels housing bubble "toil and trouble"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... $550,000 - and vastly "outstripped" the consumer price index, there were no real indicators that there was any kind of bubble about to burst. He pointed to warnings from IMF and Steve Keen over the past 10 years about the issue, noting their predictions ...

Mastering the art of ignoring crises

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... labelled by the media - between 1970 and 2011 including large events like the oil crisis and the bursting of the dotcom bubble to smaller ones including the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Latin American debt crises. "You shouldn't ...

Morphic fund added to wraps

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... has been Tokyo property developer Open House. "Japan has been out of fashion for so long after its awful 1980s property bubble, but Tokyo has been growing steadily at the expense of the rest of the country, and Open House is an entrepreneurially run ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... reverse the sentiment however. UK's inflation target is 2%, a level it hasn't been near since early 2014. Australia nears the bubble zone UBS, in its latest housing bubble report albeit it's a few months old now, says Australian housing is overvalued ...

Factor investing sees new customised approach

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... added value factor investing is cheap by definition and is as cheap now as it has been in 20 years or since the dot com bubble. The most expensive factors are momentum and growth. He said most factor returns tend to be earned in a period of contraction. ...

OneVentures says VC needs scale in Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... capital investing in 1987, again in 1999, and now - which leaves her concerned because the country gets "excited at the bubble." She said during those vintage years, the returns on venture capital were horrible. But the US, which reformed venture capital ...

Drown baby, drown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... the Middle East (the beginning of the second intifada). But other factors were more important: the bust of the internet bubble, the collapse of real investment and, in smaller measure, the Fed tightening between 1999 and 2000." The negative effects of ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... "The recent increase in housing and utilities as a percentage of the consumption breakdown is worrying, as it points to bubble formation. Commodity price weakness is bound to be another drag on the country in the future, given its focus on mining and ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... course and cut rates all over again: a shock to the U.S. economy from abroad, persistently low inflation, some new financial bubble bursting and slamming the economy, or lost momentum in a business cycle which, at 78 months, is already longer than 29 ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
Properly calibrating the superannuation system is the most important policy change from the Murray review of the financial system. Super could be sharper, leaner and easier to understand. That's why the Murray proposals to define the objective of superannuation ...