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Hidden threat may lurk on bank balance sheets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... them to carry more provisioning, so that leads them to tighten lending more." Pezzullo said most people using negative gearing strategies did not earn enough income to make it really worthwhile. "If they're borrowing money and making a loss then it's ...

More to retirement than super: planner

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... tax benefits may differ, Bineham said that while superannuation may have better tax benefits, features such as negative gearing on properties or installment gearing could also prove highly beneficial. He added that planners look at a clients retirement ...

HLB Mann Judd search for Henry clues

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... shares, defer significant tax until sold. For example, individual investors receive a better after-tax result by negatively gearing instead of using their savings. "As Henry says, the GFC is a reminder that, if we don't save domestically we can't always ...

Advisers put LPTs back on watchlist

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... enquiries [from planners], there's also a change in the tone of meetings. Only three months ago you'd have some fairly negative meetings with planners - but now they're more receptive," said Toll. Not surprisingly, planners scouting for investment opportunities ...

Macq trust sells US property

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... proceeds. This decision was flagged at the Macquarie CountryWide Trust 2008 Annual Unitholder Briefing and is designed to cut gearing, ease near-term refinancing risk, enhance the balance sheet and re-weight the portfolio to Australia and New Zealand. ...

Not a happy EOFYS on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... decision when your mortgage debt is greater than the value of your house. And according to the research, the bigger the negative equity the easier the decision to default. Easier still, if you know people who know people who have done the same. Revenge ...

TTR strategies need more attention

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
... tax effectiveness of superannuation investments and tax free pensions have been put aside. "When investment returns are negative, tax isn't the main thing people are worried about. But it will become top of mind again as investments start to turn," said ...

All not lost for LPTs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... business activities in listed property, which had been priced at quite significant premiums. They are now priced on a negative basis," said Atchison. Linden Toll, director marketing and distribution at LMW Invest, said that market sentiment and a global ...

Mortgage stress hits record levels

... information for purchasers; regulating credit practices and mortgage brokers; and reducing tax incentives for negative gearing. These solutions would come in handy given that households that only a month ago were faring well are now tightening their ...

Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... years, landlords are also dipping heavily into the Government's coffers, clawing back more than $4 billion in negative gearing deductions in 2005. With three more interest rate rises in 2006 the Australian Tax Office is expecting an even bigger hit this ...