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Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Move on people, nothing to see here today. Go away and enjoy a long lunch or plant a tree. This applies to equity markets seeking direction from overnight activity on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial index weaved and bobbed through intra-day trade ...

Shadow Treasurer will go to election over super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
Federal Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen is prepared to table changes to superannuation tax concessions in parliament prior to an election. Bowen made the call in his recent budget reply speech at the National Press Club where he reiterated the current ...

Forget Australia, head stateside for property yield

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
Forget about Australia's fast rising real estate sector, the next opportunity in that space could be in the United States, as all eyes turn to the timing of interest rate rises. Australia's love affair with property is "certainly greater than Australia's ...

Folkestone develops two Melbourne properties

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... with excellent accommodation, close to the nodes of commercial activity." In addition to the above, Folkestone's Maxim A-REIT Securities Fund has been awarded a Recommended rating from Atchison Consultants. Atchison found that the fund had "comfortably ...

Australians wary of new investments: Legg Mason

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
Australian investors are coy about putting their money to work both overseas and locally according to global asset manager Legg Mason. Although weighted averages suggest investor confidence in Australia is high, it appears investors in the lucky country ...

Hockey slams Labor super tax proposal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey has responded to Labor's suggestion of a 15% tax on super earnings above $75,000, saying, "Labor's default position is always to increase taxes." In an interview, Hockey said he hadn't looked at the "details" of Labor's announcement ...

CBA advisers ran from ASIC

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
CBA chief executive Ian Narev said that he supported the idea of individual adviser misconduct being noted on the ASIC planner register, but the issue was complicated by advisers resigning when the regulator began its investigation. Speaking at the ...

AMP Capital appoints distribution head

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
AMP Capital has hired a new head of distribution for its UK and European business. John Angell will be based at the group's London office and will drive institutional sales in the region. He will also have overall responsibility for the sales of AMP ...

Grattan issues new report on super fees

ALEX BURKE, ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
Following on from its controversial "Super Sting" report in 2014, Grattan Institute has released a new report that continues to argue Australia's superannuation industry has excessive costs. The report, titled " Super Savings ", reiterates Grattan's ...

China's deflation limited says ANZ boss

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
ANZ chief executive Mike Smith believes any deflationary effect on China in the near future will be "quite limited". The comment came at a recent Bloomberg event attended by some of Australia's top business leaders, and where Smith addressed ANZ's plans ...