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New ETFs launched to cater for BOJ stimulus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... further Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's growth programme by investing in companies that increase workers' wages and capital expenditure. The BOJ is restricted to holding 50% of any ETFs, so other buyers will be required to fill the remainder. Brokers say ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... quarter on quarter from minus 0.8%), external demand (up 0.2% from up 0.1%) contributed to first quarter growth. Capital expenditure dropped by 1.4% in the first quarter after registering a 1.2% increase in Q4 2015. Year-on-year, Japanese real GDP declined ...

Budget delivers blow to aged care

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2016
... by $1.2 billion over four years, in a move the government claims was the result of greater than expected growth in expenditure. The budget papers state that the efficiencies will be achieved through "changes to the scoring matrix of the Aged Care Funding ...

Budget big picture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... 25.8% of GDP shows how addicted Australia has become to big government - not since the early 1980s has government expenditure been consistently less than 24% of GDP. By comparison the Whitlam government's 19% of GDP expenditure seems positively austere. ...

Super flagged to repair Australia's budget

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... generating more than $15 billion in revenue. Each of the five options also include ways the government could reduce expenditure by about $2 billion, a move that CEDA chairman Paul McClintock supports. He said the reality is "we have been spending more ...

Martin Currie cautious on dividend growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
Companies continuing to cut their capital expenditure year-on-year to shore up cash flows primarily for dividend growth are not good candidates for income funds, according to one Australian equity house. At a Martin Currie Australia briefing in Sydney ...

Actuaries re-enter super housing debate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... easier for them to downsize. The Institute noted that the paper "was not primarily concerned with reducing government expenditure on age-related services, though that is likely to be an outcome."

Retirement income goal would solve super's issues: CSRI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... financial risks; providing certainty with necessary safeguards; and contributing to the sustainability of government expenditure.

Tax incentives for early stage investors too narrow: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... difficult issue, which requires further consideration," Wilson said. KPMG also worries the thresholds for income and expenditure amounts appear low and it could defeat the objective of encouraging equity investment into young, growing businesses. "It ...

ZIRP to bring back "animal spirits"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
Actual total private new capital expenditures may have surprised on the upside, rising by 0.8% in the three months ended December 2015 when they were expected to drop by 3.0% but... they're still not a pretty set of numbers. Uglier still, according ...