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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... by decreasing the maximum loan-to-valuation ratios. Industry regulations require buyers to have 30% deposit, a move that first applied to the hot Auckland property but which have been expanded to other regions. The CommBank-owned ASB, however, requires ...

Westpac hires senior compliance manager from CommSec

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... operational risk at BNP Paribas and was an internal audit manager at Macquarie. This news follows Westpac's results for the first half of FY2016, announcing a statutory net profit up 3% on the prior corresponding period to $3.7 billion. At the time ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... recorded in the previous two quarters. The quarter-on-quarter growth rate shows the economy grew at an annualised 0.2% in the first quarter, a sharp slowdown from the 6.2% pace in the last quarter of 2015.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... exchange reserves to US$3.21 trillion in March from US$3.20 trillion in February. Last month's increase in reserves was the first since October 2015 and followed declines of US28.5 billion in February, U$99.5 billion in January and December's record ...

Retirees should draw on home equity: Productivity Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... potentially expensive form of self-insurance that can lower living standards in old age. CEDA recently called for first home buyers to have access to their superannuation funds to purchase owner-occupied housing perhaps in return for the family home ...

Give first home buyers access to super: CEDA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
First home buyers should have access to their superannuation funds to purchase owner-occupied housing perhaps in return for the familiy home being counted in the pension assets test, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has said. ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... to 6,520.98 points. Investors there also reacted to news that although Britain's economy grew faster-than-expected in the first quarter, the pace slowed from the end of 2014. The euro dropped to $US1.1147 from $US1.1247 late in New York on Monday. HONG ...

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

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... 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 bad idea,"A Turnbull said during an address at the Brisbane Club. "It's ...

One third of first home buyers are investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
Contrary to first home buyers being frozen out of the residential property market, evidence is mounting that many of them are just shifting how they access the market. Concerns about first home buyers (FHB) being denied access to the residential property ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... issued a media release titled 'Home affordability: a super idea' in which he proposed a simple idea to allow first home buyers to access part of their superannuation balance to put towards a home deposit. The plan is a bit short on detail but since his ...