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Calls for independent oversight on mortgage stress

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... loans," Mousina said. "But, the probability of large-scale housing loan defaults, forced home sales and large falls in property prices looks low. However, consumer spending is still likely to remain constrained, especially as the unemployment rate ri ...

ASIC updates and reissues RG 121

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... use a share transfer office or share registration office in Australia; or administer, manage, or otherwise deal with, property situated in Australia as an agent, legal personal representative or trustee, whether by employees or agents or otherwise. Lastly ...

Former Mercer Super chair named Actuary of the Year

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... insurance, institutional banking, and superannuation. She is currently a non-executive director of Swiss Re (Life & Health and Property & Casualty) and Australian Philanthropic Services (APS). Swinhoe recently stepped down as chair of Mercer Super, a ...

Powerhouse Ventures to acquire Aliwa

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... chief investment officer and portfolio manager at Powerhouse. Powerhouse targets businesses with emerging intellectual property, mainly those in the science and engineering fields. Its focus sectors are electrification and decarbonisation, next-generation ...

Court freezes assets of company director

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... McWilliams and numerous companies associated with him that offered investment opportunities in purpose-built, NDIS-compatible property development schemes. McWilliams and his partner have also been instructed not to leave Australia. The companies in ...

Super for housing to exacerbate affordability crisis: Eslake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... as proposed by the Liberal and National Parties during the 2022 election, and subsequently, will result in residential property prices rising at a faster rate than they would otherwise, especially if growth in the supply of housing falls short of the ...

Hanson backs Dixon Advisory inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... able to escape unscathed from providing conflicted advice relating to its in-house product, the US Masters Residential Property Fund (URF). The inquiry will be heard under the Senate Economic Committee after Senator Hanson secured cross-parliament support. ...

Growth of SMSFs, Div 296 opportunity for advisers

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... tax of over $825 million collectively for its 16,531 high-balance members. Class said 36% of its members holding direct property assets will "find It difficult to meet additional tax obligations on these illiquid assets." Tim Steele, chief executive ...

Remara launches real estate strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2024
... industrial, and commercial sectors. "Our fund gives people the security of investing in what they know and want, which is property, without the substantial and concentrated capital costs and the exposure to interest rate uncertainty, planning, and they ...

Pre-retirees expect less reliance on Age Pension: Investment Trends

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... their partners' super (9%), and savings and investments (4%) for financial support. The rest is made up of rent from property (5%), equity release from the family home (9%), and other (8%). "There's a clear gap between expectation and reality, on ...