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Super wealth reaches record high

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
... compared to 2011. Of the aggregated household wealth of $9.4 trillion, $6.11 trillion was held in residential land and housing, $1 trillion was invested in cash deposits and some $798 billion in shares. Monash Investors co-portfolio manager Simon Shields ...

Let me down gently

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... Australia (RBA) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) must be breathing a sigh of relief at the latest housing finance figures indicating a slowdown in the country's property market. The bubbling Australian property market had been ...

RBA dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... settings for the rest of 2017 and then a rise early next year, recent activity data and survey releases - apart from the housing market - have been coming in on the weak side of expectations. Only yesterday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ...

Housing affordability threatens super's future

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... superannuation savings to cover the costs of renting over their retirement. They would also have the same standard of living, after housing costs, as if they had owned their own home. It's an expectation which report author and renowned economist Saul ...

Collective power: What's next for profit-to-member funds?

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... number of key areas in which industry superannuation funds can work together on solving problems including aged care, housing affordability, ethical investing, and internal fund work culture. Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) president Ged Kearney ...

Record adviser numbers attend Sydney ABDO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... bake it any other way. Eighty per cent of household debt is in mortgages, so this country is incredibly leveraged in the housing market and housing prices are crazy as a result," Campbell said. "Australia will have a big price to pay, not if, but when ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... the Reserve Bank of Australia's current concerns and noted in its March monetary policy statement: "Conditions in the housing market vary considerably around the country. In some markets, conditions are strong and prices are rising briskly. In other ...

Not off the boil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
Chinese authorities' regulatory restrictions to cool the housing market appear to be having little impact on property prices. Latest figures show that the average price of new homes in 70 Chinese cities rose by 0.3% in the month of February following ...

Access to super for housing is still bad policy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... from Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar, who made the case for early access as part of a broader package to increased housing supply, Industry Super Australia, the SMSF Association, and the Financial Services Council have all remained emphatic in their ...

RBA zeroes in on balance sheets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... on the risks facing Australia's economy since the global financial crisis that she personally would not speculate on a housing bubble. "What we're really focusing on is to what extent are things like the growth in house prices and the growth in debt ...