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SMSF direct property investment jumps 60pct

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... and an increase of 58.69% since March 2011. While it is feared that SMSFs ability to borrow money to buy residential property via limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs) is helping to fuel the housing bubble, SMSF Association technical and professional ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... similar views and says that he is not exposed to Greece: "In a trip to Greece last month we went to visit a residential property complex because that's usually the best way to have a feel of what's happening on the ground. In nine out of the 10 apartments ...

Australia underperforms as China slows down: Russell

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... added: "Investors with a home-country bias would do well to revisit their portfolios, reduce their exposure to residential property and start investing a portion of their equity allocation offshore."

FEATURE: Australia's other love affair

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... Property investments by SMSFs make up $80.9 billion of all SMSF investments, or 15.22% of their total assets. Residential property constitutes 3.5% of total SMSF investments and 0.39% of the total $4.7 trillion Australian residential housing market. ...

Gearing for SMSFs won't be significant: Colley

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... accounted for about 15% of the total pool of SMSFs and it was a misconception that most investment was in residential property.

No changes to neg gearing, super in Budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... negative gearing or superannuation. On speculation that the government might act to limit negative gearing on residential property investment, when Prime Minister Tony Abbott was asked at a media conference if the tax breaks would be wound back, he answered ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... AND CoreLogic RP Data Residential Land Report for the December quarter and the NAB's quarterly Australian residential property survey. In equities news, the chief executives of Macquarie Group, National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank are due to ...

AMP chief economist says housing future messy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... return. So for an investor, these other assets continue to represent better value." Oliver's report does say residential property over the "very long term" has provided a similar return for investors as Australian shares. "Since the 1920s housing has ...

SMSFs attract too much criticism

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... arrangements put the entire economy at risk of collapse, Burgess presented a chart showing the performance of residential property superimposed against the growth in limited recourse borrowing arrangements. LRBAs barely registered as a thin, flatish ...

Law firm deems SIV changes unworkable

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... include investing minimum 50% in venture capital and small caps funds, along with a ban on direct investment in residential property (potentially extending to residential property development). However, Eugene Chen, a special counsel and head of China ...