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Industry responds to election outcome

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... market will react positively to the election result, particularly as fears around changes to franking credits and negative gearing evaporate. She also predicts the Australian dollar will find relief, and property and housing related stocks will find ...

Negative gearing reforms not a panacea: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
Financial Standard 's latest spot poll reveals Labor's proposed changes to negative gearing will not curb the housing affordability crisis. About 56% of readers don't believe Labor's proposed reforms will improve housing affordability. ...

Super needs a clear objective: Cooper

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... rather a portion of a suite of changes it was proposing across the wealth management board, including changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts, and reforms to family trusts. SMSFA chair Deborah Ralston said it was strange that after ...

Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... late last year, bringing with them ongoing credit tightening and investor uncertainty over potential changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax. He is joined by Industry Super Australia's chief economist Stephen Anthony, who is forecasting ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... the fall-out from the Opal building quality concerns and the prospect of a Labor government that'll limit negative gearing and halve the capital tax gains discount from 50% to 25%. Lastly, predictions of further property price falls become a self-fulfilling ...

Investors to move on property before election: BlackRock

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... BlackRock said softening house prices might lead investors to make wholesale changes in anticipation of changes to negative gearing under a possible Labor government in 2019. BlackRock Australia head of fixed income Craig Vardy said with Labor poised ...

Advice firm runs rule over Labor policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
A prominent financial advice group suggests Labor's proposals on negative gearing, capital gains tax and dividend imputation all need a closer look heading into an election year. HLB Mann Judd Sydney wealth partner Jonathan Philpot said these issues ...

Housing affordability fuelling negative gearing backlash

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
The majority of non-property investors support the modification of negative gearing policy as fears over housing affordability grow. New research from the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) shows 55% of non-property investors would ...

Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... budget more than $5 billion dollars a year, Bowen said. The policy, which is part of Labor's tax reforms targeting negative gearing and capital gains, and closing discretionary trusts loopholes, would apply from 1 July 2019 if Labor wins the election ...

Spring FG wealth GM departs in management restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... advice during FY2017." "These external factors included changes to superannuation rules, the threat of changes to negative gearing and APRA policy moves rein in residential property lending, in particular relating to the SMSF market. These factors restricted ...