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Sydney house prices up 5-times national average

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... than their state averages. The price index movements mean NSW home owners earned $80,000 through the year just from their homes increasing in value, an amount that exceeds the national average wage.

Super reforms to hurt retirees

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... the "needed" changes, said that the Government should apply its small business concessions to retirees selling down their homes. "If we go back to when people could put $1 million into super in one hit, that amnesty period, people downsized," she said. ...

Morrison protects homes from Age Pension means test

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
Federal Social Services Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that the family home will never be included in the Age Pension means test under a Coalition government. At the same time, a raft of pension reforms potentially saving $2.4 billion in the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... cent) to 2,107.96, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index gained 21.07 (0.42 per cent) at 5,035.17. Total sales of used homes jumped 6.1 per cent to an annual rate of 5.19 million units in March, the fastest pace in 18 months, according to data from ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... cent) to 2,104.99, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index shed 3.23 (0.06 per cent) at 5,007.79. New construction of homes in the United States rose 2.0 per cent to an annual rate of 926,000 units, the Commerce Department said, a smaller increase ...

Infocus to provide advice to First Super members

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... financial advisers based in Adelaide will travel to locations around South Australia to meet with First Super members at their homes or workplaces. The $2.2 billion fund mostly caters for the forestry and timber products sector, so many of its members ...

VicSuper awards $100 million mandate to AB

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... research involves visiting emerging-market countries and talking to business owners on their premises and consumers in their homes," said AB the fund's portfolio manager Tassos Stassopoulos. "We research the opportunity as we would if we were a company ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 16.25 (0.32 per cent) to 4,994.73. Data showed sales of new single-family homes surged in February to a seven-year high, while consumer prices rose for the first time in four months. The new economic ...

AustralianSuper adds London site to property portfolio

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... Railways) and DHL Supply Chain. The 67-acre King's Cross site, which includes some eight million square feet of offices, homes, hotels, leisure, shops and restaurants, a university, galleries, schools, community facilities and music venues, will remain ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... Consumer spending rose just 0.2 per cent in October, compared with a revised 0.2 per cent decline in September. But US new homes sales advanced 0.7 per cent in October to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 458,000. In local economic news on Thursday ...