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Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... concern. "We have to ask ourselves where the asset bubbles are forming and are they large enough to be systemic like the sub-prime debt crisis was in the United States," he said. Douglass said current high-yielding credit products were unsustainable. ...

J.P. Morgan offloads Melbourne properties

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... the building and the precinct, it is very difficult for them to leave." Rathgeber said there was a shortage of existing prime office assets in Melbourne and the cap rate on any deal could hit 5%. Twenty8 Freshwater Place is a mixed-use development on ...

SuperConcepts names new chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
AMP's SuperConcepts has named a new chair, hiring from McPherson Super Consulting. Stuart Forsyth will take on the position, leaving his consultant role at McPherson Super Consulting. Prior to that, Forsyth was a non-executive director at SuperIQ and ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street sneezes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... preparing, fiscal responses. Except for Hawaii boy Scott Morrison. This from Factset: "Australia remains the holdout with Prime Minister Morrison again ruling out a fiscal response to the expected impact on growth from the virus".

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... from COVID-19 adds to the downward pressure on the domestic economy caused by the bushfires, storms and floods, testing Prime Minister Scott Morrison's declaration: "The surplus is of no focus for me whatsoever. What matters to me is the human cost ...

China vaccinates against corona

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... quarantining cities and regions infected by the virus, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut its benchmark one-year loan prime rate (LPR) by 10 basis points to 4.05% and the five-year rate from 4.8% to 4.75% on February 20. This followed the PBOC's ...

Super chief opposes SG increase

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... fund has spoken out against increasing the superannuation guarantee to 12% in a submission to the Retirement Income Review. Prime Super chief executive Lachlan Baird said that while most super funds would advocate for an increase in compulsory super ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus threatens Tokyo Olympics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... coronavirus has put a big question mark on this. Of greater concern is the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics altogether. Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo announced that the Games will proceed. But if the coronavirus persists heading into July, there'll ...

First State Super acquires rental properties

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... Miranda NSW. "This is our first investment in key worker affordable housing in Victoria. We chose this development for its prime location - just six kilometres from the CBD and four kilometres from Parkville health precinct - and exceptional facilities. ...

Aussie IPOs outperform benchmark

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
Despite a handful of infamous failed Aussie floats in 2019, the IPO market outperformed the benchmark ASX 200 Index by 16.8%. New research from equity raising platform OnMarket revealed that IPOs returned an average 35.2%, marking the fourth time in ...