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Turnbull on super and housing debate: "a thoroughly bad idea"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
Communications Minister and Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull slammed Treasurer Joe Hockey's suggestion that young Australians could be given early access to their superannuation to help them buy their first house. "My own view is that would be a thoroughly ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious." - Lao Tzu, 'The Art of War' That "when" to fight must be nigh. Rumour has it that the People's Bank of China (PBOC) is preparing its own QE programme - prompted by the PBOC's recent ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open flat ahead of local jobs data and following a lacklustre performance on Wall Street. At 0808 AEDT on Thursday, the March share price index futures contract was up five points at 5,791. In local economic news on ...

How to get private equity returns from listed stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Investors can get two-thirds of the excess return offered by private equity from targeted listed stocks, according to researchers from State Street and Windham Capital Management who say this nullifies the need to allocate to the asset class unless ...

You sexy thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
"When you're in love with a beautiful woman it's hard... Everybody wants her Everybody loves her Everybody wants to take your baby home." - Dr. Hook The good doctor might have as well sung about the US dollar instead of the fairer sex for mirror, mirror ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
The Australian sharemarket is higher buoyed by strength from the major banks and despite weakness in the resources sector. CMC Markets chief analyst strategist Michael McCarthy said the local bourse was bouncing back after Monday's negative momentum ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
"Alea iacta est"! "The die is cast". This is what Julius Caesar exclaimed when he crossed the river Rubicon back in 49 BC. The same phrase that ECB president Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
The Australian sharemarket is trading lower, after increased prospects of a hike in US interest rates weighed on Wall Street. Strong jobs growth data from the US Labor Department has raised expectations the Federal Reserve will soon lift interest rates. ...

NSW to receive $2 billion infrastructure incentive

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
The NSW government will receive $2 billion in incentive payments from the Commonwealth for its infrastructure recycling strategy, Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced. Designed to incentivise NSW Premier Mike Baird's plan to lease 49% of the state's electricity ...

Hockey contemplates first home buyer access to super

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
The superannuation industry has reacted strongly to Treasurer Joe Hockey's comments that suggest the government could allow young Australians access to their superannuation to buy their first home. When asked if people should be able to use their super ...