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Expensive property market creating super opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
Millennials priced out of the Australian housing market should consider directing savings towards superannuation in order to generate similar returns to that of home ownership. Earlier this week research house Demographia labeled Sydney as the second ...

BT Investment Management expands team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
BT Investment Management is increasing its income and fixed interest capabilities with two appointments. Tim Hext is joining as a portfolio manager with a focus on the Australian and New Zealand markets. Amy Xie Patrick was also appointed as a portfolio ...

Hunter Hall receives surprise new takeover bid

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
After a takeover bid from Washington H. Soul Pattinson seemed all but destined for success, a new player has entered the race for Hunter Hall. Following Hunter Hall founder and chief executive Peter Hall's shock resignation in December, and his sale ...

Still unsure about POTUS 45

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
They've tried to take away his thumbs from twitter when he was Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump. Still, he prevailed and from 20 January 2017, Donald Trump - the 45th president of the United States - became known in twitterland as President Trump or @POTUS. ...

Economic headwinds lead Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
... of the world, does that mean it has also done so in Australia? If so the Reserve Bank therefore has no reason to cut interest rates. "If the US dollar continues to strengthen does that mean the Australian dollar will fall to levels that people were expecting ...

Housing market faces heavy downside risk

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... the downside risks associated with investing in property are elevated." Those favourable conditions include very low interest rates, high debt levels, low unemployment and strong economic growth. The risks, then, are interest rates rising in the medium-term ...

Activity and inflation going Yellen's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... continued increases in the fed funds rate. "What I can tell you is what we expect--along with a very large caveat that our interest rate expectations will change as our outlook for the economy changes. That said, as of last month, I and most of my colleagues--the ...

Moody Aussies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... buyers) and predictions of falling property prices (negative for property investors and home owners) - along with rising interest rates (big banks have started raising mortgage rates) and slim chance of the RBA cutting interest rates this year. Recall ...

No deal is better than bad deal on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... institutions and member states prepare for the new arrangements that will exist between us will be in our mutual self-interest. This will give businesses enough time to plan and prepare for those new arrangements." And with regards to calls for a "punitive ...

Investec snaps up NSW properties

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
... Rodborough Road properties to the new Northern Beaches Hospital and associated infrastructure is anticipated to drive interest, particularly from tenants in the healthcare sector. This is expected to be aided by the fact that the annual growth rate for ...