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Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
A draft report into reforming GST and reducing inefficient taxes has reignited calls for the scrapping of stamp duty when buying or selling a home, to be replaced by a broad-based land tax. The NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations draft report ...

Challenges abound as super poises for COVID-19 recovery

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... balance sheets. Moving away from the super system today and making any move to wind it back will only create issues down the road for government P&L." Further clarity over superannuation policy would allow super funds to better invest in the economic ...

First Nations Foundation gets COVID-19 funding

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2020
The First Nations Foundation, an Indigenous-led not-for-profit that promotes financial literacy, has received funding to deliver COVID-19 support to women. The foundation was one of only four recipients of this funding from the Department of Prime Minister ...

Unemployment hits 21-year high

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... that," Morrison said. "There is some comfort that can be taken from the fact that we are making our way back and we are on the road back and that we are taking steps, every single day." Morrison said that while Australia is doing better than many other ...

VanEck makes case for equal weight investing

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... a skewed exposure towards smaller stocks can outperform during periods of market recovery. In its new research paper The road to recovery, VanEck examines three separate periods of recovery - the period following the 2001 dotcom burst, the 2008 GFC and ...

We cannot prevent the blow: PM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... Morrison said. "But the hit to our economy, we must understand, is significant despite our relatively strong performance and the road ahead will be very hard. We still have a mountain to climb." Morrison said, compared with the mid-year update, it is ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 takes second crack at China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
Just when we thought that life was slowly returning to normal, reports out of Beijing have turned into reality what many feared - a second wave. While all our uncles and their dogs blamed China for the "bother" the world finds itself in, its policy ...

Chief economist update: Australian Renaissance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... pledge another $1.5 billion so the states and territories can immediately start work on small projects as well as undertake road safety improvements. This brings to $9.3 billion the funding that has been brought forward over the past eight months to ...

Hedge funds record best month since GFC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... April as most stock markets rebounded in the month, making it the highest one-month return since May 2009. Yet it is a long road ahead, as hedge funds still need to recover their first quarter losses of 10.94%. April's stellar returns only still take ...

Housing affordability improves

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... circumstances, there was a 4.2% increase in the number of loans from the same quarter in 2019. Despite the uncertain economic road ahead, REIA president Adrian Kelly expects there will be an increase in first home buyers. "The number of first home buyers ...