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Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... Australia Bank's monthly business survey for May are due out. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will also release its housing finance data for April. In Australia, the stock market on Friday had its worst weekly performance in three years, with a massive ...

Australian market to open lower

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... worries about growth after the IMF cut its US economic forecast. Locally on Friday, the Australian Industry Group and the Housing Industry Association releases its performance of construction index (PCI) for May. In Australia, the market on Friday the ...

Australia underperforms as China slows down: Russell

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... Long-term Investing Report determined that the Australian share market and the Australian dollar struggled in 2014, while housing looks increasingly risky. The report compares performance of domestic and global asset classes over 10 and 20-year periods ...

Property bubble debate heats up

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... Treasury secretary John Fraser was the last public official to warn about fast rising house prices: "When you look at the housing price bubble evidence, it's unequivocally the case in Sydney," he told a Senate committee, and added that this was "certainly ...

Family office fintech solutions on the rise: IRESS

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... offices in Australia are "more sophisticated than they have ever been." It is also a sign that "family offices are in-housing capabilities that they previously tended to outsource." IRESS solution for family offices allows them to manage portfolios and ...

Widen access to PLS, say cross-bench senators

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... 1983, is a reverse mortgage scheme that allows people of pension age to access an income stream by borrowing against their housing equity. Currently it is only available to people of pension age or their partners who are unable to receive a full pension ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... of record closing peaks, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 8.40 points (0.17 per cent) to 5,070.03. US housing starts leapt 20.2 per cent in April to an annual rate of 1,135,000 units, the best level of new home construction since November ...

ASIC and RBA issue property bubble warning

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Grag Medcraft says the Sydney and Melbourne housing markets look a lot like bubbles. "I am quite worried about the Sydney and Melbourne property markets. In housing, the long-term average ...

FEATURE: Australia's other love affair

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... There has arguably never been so much discussion around property with some experts saying Australia is going through a housing bubble fuelled by low interest rates and SMSFs' ability to borrow. Financial Standard analyses investors' current love affair ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was down four points at 5,570. Locally on Tuesday, official housing finance figures for March are released, the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey is due out and Treasurer Joe ...