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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 ...

Broker popularity on the rise: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... believing it is a good time to invest. Only 14% have put plans to invest on hold in the wake of proposals to ban negative gearing and reduce capital gains tax exemptions. "The optimism is consistent with the fact that investors focus on the long-term ...

Rethink the great Australian dream: Report

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2017
... Maddock urged policy makers and commentators to look beyond the "often debated" topics of foreign investment, negative gearing and interest rates, to greater issues of the current structure of land supply, which he says may inadvertently make it in develops ...

Crisis emerging in Australian retirement system: HILDA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2017
... Wilkins is calling for new policies to be considered, including reducing tax concessions on superannuation and negative gearing, and including the family home in the assets test for the aged pension. "These aren't politically easy policy solutions because ...

Budget undermining super: Labor

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... retirement - not for housing. "[The housing policy announced] was pitifully inadequate because it didn't deal with negative gearing or capital gains. Those are the big tax breaks for wealthy investors, which make it so hard for first-home owners to get ...

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... residential, but we certainly could have done without it," he said. The decision to reverse the abolition of negative gearing for property investors - Hawke/Keating, 1987 In 1985, then-treasurer Paul Keating abolished negative gearing for all future ...