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Tax conversation in a bubble

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... firm H&R Block has weighed in on the national tax debate, suggesting there is a danger the conversation is being held in a bubble between "pontificating politicians, policy nerds, lobby groups, academics and media types." H&R Block director of tax communications ...

Multimillionaires still love property above everything else

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... highest allocation is in real estate, a sign that there are opportunities in the asset class despite warnings of a property bubble. The latest Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management Global HNW Insights Survey for 2015 revealed that Australian HNWs' allocation ...

Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... falls below 8% (frim double digits), this was followed by the implosion that would follow the bursting of the property bubble and over-reliance on investment, followed by the potential debt disaster from ballooning local government debts, followed by ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... says that Chinese authorities have encouraged retail investment to enter the stock market to cool down the growing housing bubble. Retail investors represent about 85% of the market, while foreign investors are less than 2%. This makes it a highly volatile ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Are we barking at the wrong tree? Let me rephrase that, we are barking at the wrong tree. It has been less than a month ago - before this wailing and gnashing of teeth - that bad China news brought hopes that central command would fight back with stimulus ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... October to 5.5% in November 1994. But also note that the S&P 500's bullrun did not end until five years later when the dotcom bubble went bust in 2000. It went from 459.27 points in 1995 to a high of 1,500.59 - a 227% surge... and this despite the Fed ...

China impossible to ignore for asset managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... globalisation that needs to happen with restoring confidence in what looks to us as a leveraging, largely retail investor-driven bubble that's certainly begun to correct. "But these are some of the natural corrections that an economy of that size is ...

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... longer. Perhaps the gold bears have been correct all along and gold bugs wrong -- that gold just experienced a speculative bubble and would now continue to deflate -- especially considering that Grexit and China's stock market crash fears have not been ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... Graiver, says that "we were a bit reluctant on Chinese equities a year ago." The fund manager feared "the Chinese property bubble collapsing, a number of risks around the credit growth that's accelerating very fast and GDP growth being insufficient." ...

SMSF direct property investment jumps 60pct

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... borrow money to buy residential property via limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs) is helping to fuel the housing bubble, SMSF Association technical and professional standards director Graeme Colley said it is misleading to use these figures ...