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Younger Australians taking up SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
... said this statistic dispels an erroneous view that SMSFs are full of jewellery and artworks, or that they are driving first home buyers out of the housing market. "Indeed SMSFs are three-times more likely to favour commercial over residential property ...

Aussies unsure about super contributions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... Generation X and Baby Boomer participants in the survey. For Gen Y the top financial dream was having money to buy their first home. When asked where you would go to look for information about your super, 49% said they'd turn to their employer. This ...

UK to introduce lifetime ISAs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... will be launching subsidised Lifetime Individual Savings Accounts that will allow people under 40 to save for their first home and retirement. The initiative follows a raft of other measures designed to open up the UK savings system including the introduction ...

Retirees should draw on home equity: Productivity Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... a potentially expensive form of self-insurance that can lower living standards in old age. CEDA recently called for first home buyers to have access to their superannuation funds to purchase owner-occupied housing perhaps in return for the family home ...

Give first home buyers access to super: CEDA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
First home buyers should have access to their superannuation funds to purchase owner-occupied housing perhaps in return for the familiy home being counted in the pension assets test, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has said. ...

Hockey contemplates first home buyer access to super

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... Hockey's comments that suggest the government could allow young Australians access to their superannuation to buy their first home. When asked if people should be able to use their super savings to buy property, Hockey answered: "It is incredibly hard ...

One third of first home buyers are investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
Contrary to first home buyers being frozen out of the residential property market, evidence is mounting that many of them are just shifting how they access the market. Concerns about first home buyers (FHB) being denied access to the residential property ...

FEATURE: Quenching the thirst for income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... (and the resultant record low interest rates) has put traditional sources of yield under pressure. While saving for a first home deposit, wedding or family holiday used to be as simple as making regular payments into a high interest cash account, younger ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... Xenophon issued a media release titled 'Home affordability: a super idea' in which he proposed a simple idea to allow first home buyers to access part of their superannuation balance to put towards a home deposit. The plan is a bit short on detail but ...

AIST slams Xenophon's super home loan proposal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon's proposal to allow first home buyers to access their super for a deposit would "threaten retirement income security", according to Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Tom Garcia. ...