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Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... In local economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia is due to release financial aggregates for June while the Housing Industry Association trades report for the March quarter is also due out. In equities news, Origin Energy and Paladin Energy ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... (https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/nzd/1978-australian-dollar-and-nz-dollar-parity-forecast-45435) "Apart from larger population and a bloated housing asset base that is borrowed against without constraint fuelled by cash rich immigrants, Australia hasn't ...

SMSF direct property investment jumps 60pct

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... to borrow money to buy residential property via limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs) is helping to fuel the housing bubble, SMSF Association technical and professional standards director Graeme Colley said it is misleading to use these figures ...

Fidante buys UK alternatives manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... with interests in three other UK boutique fund managers: renewable energy specialist Resonance Asset Management; social housing investor Horizon Infrastructure Partnership; and Agricultural Asset Management Limited, which focuses on agricultural investments ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... contract was down 21 points at 5,387. In local economic news on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases May's housing finance data. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Thursday rebounded from its early losses ...

Sydney house prices up 5-times national average

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... of Australia's 9.5 million residential dwellings to be $5.5 trillion, with 40% of this value held in NSW. This national housing stock value is equivalent to 2.8-times the value of Australia's entire superannuation savings pool. The mean average price ...

SMSF investors reducing cash and shares

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... proportion of the overall investment portfolios but the trend now is that it is growing with valuations exacerbated by the housing bubble in Sydney and Melbourne," Wise said. "A noteworthy trend is the increase in investments in unit trusts which have ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... further lowering interest rates to 1.25, but we don't think that will happen because it's too aggressive a move for the housing market," he added. This all means that Australia "is going to have to wear this slowdown in China and you're not going to ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... growth of 0.9% (quarter on quarter) that was driven by a lift in exports and inventories. He said household consumption and housing "look precariously supported in an environment of very low wages growth, a rundown in household savings and a housing ...

Australian Unity completes capital raising for new fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... with further scale." He added, "This development, and others like it, will allow us to play a greater role in meeting the housing and infrastructure needs of ageing Australia in a way that also supports the interests of investors." At the same time ...