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Investment still lagging despite confidence surge: RBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... Australian dollar "lower than it is today." The Governor also referred to the debate about the potential existence of a property bubble in Australia. "The price rise that reverses an early decline probably it's not something to complain about too quickly," ...

Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... monetary policy here too you know. Record low interest rates - official cash rate at 2.5% -- that's boosting share and property prices. Surely, the wealth effect spawned from these should encourage Australians to spend, and this spending should bolster ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... Drillsearch and PanAust are slated to release quarterly reports, UGL Group, Stockland, NIB Holdings, Domino's Pizza and Dexus Property all have annual general meetings. Meanwhile, Wesfarmers CEO Richard Goyder is scheduled to speak at an AMCHAM event ...

HOSTPLUS targets SMSFs with direct infra option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... of assets. "But when we thought about infrastructure, they can't really get that - or they're doing it through listed property or listed infrastructure, which is not the same thing." SMSFs can only invest in super funds that are pooled superannuation ...

Congress dysfunction hits US bond confidence

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... election. Governor Widodo is known as a moderate pro business progressive who is an engineer by training and a former property and furniture businessman. When governor of the east Java city of Surakata, just east of the Indonesian cultural capital Yogyakarta ...

Advice main concern in FOS investment disputes

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... disputes about retail funds, inappropriate advice accounted for 20%. Complaints related to residential and commercial property also saw disputes regarding inappropriate advice. The FOS accepted 10 claims about real property and the leading issue in six ...

Demand for industrial property exceeds expectations

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
Investors' appetite for industrial property, especially from the self-managed super segment, is ahead of expectations, inflows into one property fund manager's specialist product indicate. Charter Hall has announced that it has closed its Direct Industrial ...

ASIC warns consumers about NRAS property ads

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... and moderate income earners at a rate that is at least 20% below the market value. NRAS aims to encourage larger scaled property investments (usually 100 or more houses). However, individual investors can access the scheme through an approved participant. ...

AusSuper's in-house plan to save $150m

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... phase saw the "implementation of the systems, processes and people" to manage investments in Australian equities, direct property and infrastructure. AustralianSuper's chief investment officer Mark Delaney said the fund had hired 23 new staff, including ...

ASIC acted only when claims hit "tsunami level"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... inquiry that ASIC seemed to spring into action." "At one point it took a government minister's wife to lose a sum in a property fund to get ASIC to start an investigation into that fund," she added. In meetings where investor-related concerns came up ...