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Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... rate was unchanged at 1.6% (below the Fed's 2.0% target). Worries over deflation was also one of the reasons (along with property market slowdown) for the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) surprise rate cut announcement over the weekend. The PBOC cut its ...

Accounting businesses drag Countplus profit

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... services," chairman Barry Lambert said. Accounting business revenue was flat for the period, while financial planning and property broking businesses grew organically and by acquisition during the first six months of financial year 2015. "In financial ...

ASIC bans former Westpac problem gambler

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... given a two-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay back Westpac using the proceeds from the sale of his investment property.

PM Capital global fund boosts income growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... added: "We firmly believe that the risk reward from owning a business is far superior to that of owning government bonds, property or cash." He noted that "we continue to find compelling valuation opportunities offshore, relative to the Australian market ...

Centuria reports 6.6% growth in net assets

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... fully-franked dividend of 2c, to be paid on 26 March. Strategic goals reached during the period include Centuria's listed property funds management division's IPO of the $143 million Centuria Metropolitan REIT, $37 million sale of Over Fifty Insurance ...

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 ...

Super only 35% of retirement nest egg

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... According to ING Direct, "Australians are looking to options they are more familiar and comfortable with, including savings, property and even inheritance money, to make up the remaining bulk of their retirement income." Savings make up 11.6% of the ...

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 ...

Finance minister seeks interest from property investors

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
The government is seeking interest from potential property investors in six Commonwealth properties in Canberra as part of its property divestment program, Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance ...

FSI proposal to ban LRBAs "draconian"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... without advice," Anderson said, and argued against a complete ban of self-managed super fund (SMSF) borrowing to buy property. Speaking at an AFA GenXt roadshow in Sydney, Anderson referred to the FSI recommendation that superannuation funds could transfer ...