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Japan ripe for investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... "Two years ago there was all this hype about Abenomics and the market got pumped up, to some extent it was little bit of a bubble, but over the last 18 months the Japanese market has adjusted," Koll said. "The tourists, the speculators, they have left ...

Succession planning placed on the backburner

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... (optimistically) it is either a buyer or sellers' market at present. But the undeniable reality is that there is a Baby Boomer bubble of owners trying to sell their small businesses to the next generation but there are not enough Gen Y buyers interested." ...

No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Don't anticipate any further significant easing of monetary policy or any aggressive policy tightening any time soon, AllianceBernstein (AB) has said at a media briefing in Sydney. With its impact having been both minor and unpopular to date, any more ...

Templeton director returns to the fold

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... who recognise that there has only been one period in TGG's history rivalling recent struggles: the tech, media and telco bubble of the late 90s." The fund has reported an 8.6% return p.a. over the past three years, 11.3% over the last five and 2.5% over ...

Disclosure deadlines present super challenge

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
Superannuation has recently received plenty of oxygen in the political atmosphere and fund disclosure is yet another bubble quickly rising. As super funds and regulators work towards several disclosure deadlines in 2017, industry representative groups ...

Low rates signify opportunity for reinvesting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... potentially indicative of what's to come in other capital cities. "I can't predict whether Sydney or Melbourne are in a housing bubble, but what we do know is that the froth is off the top in Perth, driven by all the job losses in the commodities space. ...

NAB dispels housing bubble "toil and trouble"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... $550,000 - and vastly "outstripped" the consumer price index, there were no real indicators that there was any kind of bubble about to burst. He pointed to warnings from IMF and Steve Keen over the past 10 years about the issue, noting their predictions ...

Mastering the art of ignoring crises

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... labelled by the media - between 1970 and 2011 including large events like the oil crisis and the bursting of the dotcom bubble to smaller ones including the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Latin American debt crises. "You shouldn't ...

Morphic fund added to wraps

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... has been Tokyo property developer Open House. "Japan has been out of fashion for so long after its awful 1980s property bubble, but Tokyo has been growing steadily at the expense of the rest of the country, and Open House is an entrepreneurially run ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... reverse the sentiment however. UK's inflation target is 2%, a level it hasn't been near since early 2014. Australia nears the bubble zone UBS, in its latest housing bubble report albeit it's a few months old now, says Australian housing is overvalued ...