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Chief economist update: More from Morrison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... interest accruing during this period. The subsequent interest rate would be set at 50 per cent of the 10-year Commonwealth government bond rate - currently around 0.6 per cent," it reads. The piece continues: "Building on the disaster recovery grants ...

Plato to raise $200 million

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... retirees to live off the income from cash and fixed income" given current 1% RBA cash rates and 10-year Commonwealth Government Bonds trading at a yield below 1%. "Given the recent election result, retirees can continue to bank on receiving franking ...

Australian fund caught in email scandal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... classifications or mark official documents for limited dissemination. As well as the security issue, deletion of Commonwealth government records from these accounts may have contravened the record keeping requirements of the Archives Act 1983. The Auditor ...

Coalition to boost retail access to corporate bonds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... issued in the wholesale market, via depository interests. Retail investors are currently able to invest in Commonwealth Government Securities via depository interests." The Financial System Inquiry recommended further simplifying disclosure requirements ...

Record tax receipts, record outlays yet back to surplus

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... as the bank levy raised only $1.6 billion this financial year which is just 0.3% of total receipts. The Commonwealth Government raises more revenue from the wine equalization and luxury car taxes. Weighed against these minor revenue items, the Budget ...

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... up-sloping, FIIG director of education and research Elizabeth Moran added. "The benchmark three-year Australian Commonwealth Government bond rate is 1.90%, over five years is 2.01% and 10 years is 2.41%," she said. The US fixed income story The US yield ...

IFM bids to build Melbourne Airport rail link

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2018
IFM Investors is part of a consortium seeking to fund and develop the long-awaited Melbourne Airport rail link. The $112 billion institutional fund manager partnered with Melbourne Airport, Metro Trains Australia and Southern Cross Station to form AirRail ...

Boutique aims to tackle retiree housing affordability

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... $50,000. The project involves a "rental retirement" template, designed to attract those eligible for the Commonwealth Government aged pension and rental assistance. Residents would pay 100% of their rental assistance in addition to a portion of the base ...

FIIG Securities head of intermediaries departs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... also a board member of OneVue, the Australian Office of Financial Management, and is the chairman of the Commonwealth Government Affordable Housing Implementation Taskforce. Feldmanis spent four years at TCorp as chief financial officer and brings more ...

Jeremy Cooper explores the inconvenient truth of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... entirely probability-based outcomes and a risk-free retirement: one backed entirely by the Age Pension and Commonwealth government bonds, for example. Once they have worked out this retirement income philosophy, they can work on the delivery." Cooper ...