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Inflation continues to drop, calls for RBA cut grow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... inflation." The largest contributor to the annual movement was food and non-alcoholic beverages, up 2.9%. This was followed by housing, up 2%, and alcohol and tobacco, up 5.9%.

Super a 'taxpayer subsidised inheritance scheme': Grattan

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2025
Grattan Institute housing and economic security program director Brendan Coates has slammed the government's superannuation tax concessions, reinforcing his view that the super system is no longer being used to fund retirements. "The concessions available ...

Select stocks in charge of their own destiny: Aoris

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... yesterday. "We don't own businesses where the external environment can matter... that would include businesses with a housing cycle, trade and tariffs, and politics. "And we don't want to be in what I call the sharp end of change. Change is always exciting ...

Future Fund cleared to manage select asset classes in-house

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2025
... government last year, which requires it to consider Australia's national priorities - increasing the supply of residential housing, supporting the energy transition, and delivering improved infrastructure located in Australia - in its investment ...

European property draws interest from HESTA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... has provided an undisclosed sum to Heitman for investment in alternative property types, including self-storage, student housing, residential and aged care. Since 2017 HESTA has had a mandate with Heitman through its US core investment strategy, which ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... that we can make, because there is substantial agreement on so many of the key priorities: driving faster approvals for housing, energy, and infrastructure projects, while ensuring sustainability; making it easier for Australian innovators to commercialise ...

King's honours list recognises excellence in super, finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... board. Also an AOM recipient, current Chief Executive Women president Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz is also chair of the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council (NHSAC). She is a non-executive director at Macquarie Group and Rio Tinto. Between 2012 and ...

MP says Coalition will 'fight to the death' over $3m super tax

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... the super tax, labelling it as "concessional" while bolstering things like Medicare, cost-of-living relief and easing housing problems. Last month, Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg condemned the bill, claiming that it won't impact politicians with specific ...

Australia's billionaire boom branded 'morally wrong' by Oxfam

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... society. "When tax loopholes are closed for the wealthiest, there will be more money in the budget for healthcare, affordable housing, action on climate change and ending poverty."

BlackRock hires Housing Australia treasury chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... BlackRock's new head of fixed-income and credit product strategy has returned to funds management after taking on key roles at Housing Australia, New South Wales Treasury, and TCorp. Katherine Palmer brings over 12 years of government balance sheet ...