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Limiting negative gearing could add $2bn in annual revenue

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
Making changes to negative gearing could be worth at least $2 billion a year in revenue, while reducing the capital gains tax discount could be worth around $5 billion a year, according to new research from the Grattan Institute. This comes as Treasurer ...

Pre-retirees expect less reliance on Age Pension: Investment Trends

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... Retirees also rely on their partners' super (9%), and savings and investments (4%) for financial support. The rest is made up of rent from property (5%), equity release from the family home (9%), and other (8%). "There's a clear gap between expectation ...

Director pleads guilty to 'dishonestly' obtaining near $1m

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
The former director for Guevara Capital Access (GCA) and Online Trading Capital (OTC) has yesterday admitted he dishonestly obtained a financial advantage by deception in the Downing Centre District Court. Mark McCabe has pleaded guilty to three offences ...

HAFF receives first round commitments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
Housing Australia and the Community Housing Industry Association (CHIA) have announced commitments to the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) under the first funding round. Housing Australia has selected an initial pipeline of 185 projects to potentially ...

More to do in the fight against inflation: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
... for minimum wage earners and more help is on the way from this month." From this month, the maximum rates of Commonwealth Rent Assistance will increase by a further 10% which Chalmers said will benefit nearly one million households. The government will ...

Super funds fail to meet millennial members' expectations: ASIC roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024
... many millennials who are often juggling competing priorities because of cost-of-living pressures, they have mortgages or rent to pay, young families and ageing parents," a summary of the roundtable said. Tan said that many people view super as something ...

Inflation eases in July

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicator rose 3.5% in the 12 months to July, down from 3.8% in June, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The most significant contributors to the annual rise were housing ...

Short-termism damaging Australian economy: CEDA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
Australia must move beyond pervasive short-termism and lift its policy ambitions if the nation is to reach its economic potential, according to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). "Our record of almost three decades of economic ...

Dexus property valuation rout deepens by $2bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2024
... director Ross Du Vernet said occupancy in the office and industrial portfolios remained high at 94.8% and 96.8%, while strong rent collections stood at 99.5%. "For our office portfolio, occupancy exceeded the average Australian market occupancy of 86.4% ...

I Squared Capital grows local team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024
​A former AMP Capital institutional distribution head has joined the $40 billion global infrastructure group I Squared Capital. As the local managing director of investor relations, Rob Hamilton will manage relationships with local investors and asset ...