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Superannuation tax concessions unsustainable: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... millions of dollars in their accounts." The opposition's policy has two key elements - to tax retirement earnings that are above $75,000 at the concessional 15% rate, and lower the threshold for the 15% High Income Superannuation Charge from $300,000 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... technology stocks. The broad-market S&P 500 rose 22.62 points (1.08 per cent) to 2,121.10 on Thursday, more than three points above the prior record set in late April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 191.75 (1.06 per cent) to 18,252.24, while ...

Aussie banks overpriced, undercapitalised: Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... happened last weekend in Double Bay). Investors in Australian banks should worry too." He said that house prices are over 50% above the pre-crisis level and the size of mortgages has increased twice the growth in income since 1984. "Growing debt fuels ...

Economist asleep over budget investment market impact

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... Oliver said he could almost fall asleep because he didn't see much impact from the budget. "Global growth is running just above 3% and it's been stuck there for several years. So when you think about the bond sell-off that is rattling investors around ...

Australia unprepared for FTAs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... offshore" and "[export] financial services to meet increasing demand from Australia's regional neighbours." Responding to the above, Finsia is participating in a consortium of "professional membership organisations in Asia" to determine how to facilitate ...

Folkestone develops two Melbourne properties

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... business in Melbourne's east with excellent accommodation, close to the nodes of commercial activity." In addition to the above, Folkestone's Maxim A-REIT Securities Fund has been awarded a Recommended rating from Atchison Consultants. Atchison found ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... faces relatively large downward pressure" and that "The overall inflation level is low, the real interest-rate level is above the historical average, for which there was room to use the interest-rate tool." The latest cut is the PBOC's third in six months ...

CML launches $25m corporate bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... FIIG chief executive Mark Paton said. The 6-year floating rate senior secured issue will initially pay a margin of 5.40% above the 30-day Bank Bill Swap Rate which amounts to a coupon rate of 7.55% at current market rates, FIIG confirmed. CML Group was ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... 0.15 per cent to 4,981.59 and the DAX in Frankfurt climbed 0.20 per cent to 11,350.15 points, despite the euro shooting above $US1.13. HONG KONG - Asian stocks have lost ground as China's market declined and US markets fell on worries about surging oil ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... before the 2.30pm RBA rate cut announcement) to US$0.7820 immediately after, before just as quickly bouncing back and rising above US$0.7900. The A$ reached a high of US$0.7947 in overnight trade and is currently fetching US$0.7937. Currency market experts ...