BFCSA: Pressure on banks to raise rates: Wind back new Mortgage discounts
Pressure on banks to raise rates The Australian 12:00am January 14, 2019 David Rogers Pressure is growing on Australia’s major banks to wind back new mortgage discounts and push through further...
View ArticleBFCSA: Call to close errant developers’ loopholes: fallout from the Opal...
Call to close errant developers’ loopholes The Australian 12:00am January 14, 2019 Sam Buckingham-Jones More than 1350 construction companies in Australia went into administration in a 12-month...
View ArticleBFCSA: The Australian Dream Died Alone in an Apartment - Time to Fasten Your...
The Australian Dream Died Alone in an Apartment Bloomberg January 12, 2019 David Fickling David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering commodities, as well as industrial and consumer...
View ArticleBFCSA: Engineers question strength of Opal Tower support beams
Engineers question strength of Opal Tower support beams The Australian 12:00am January 15, 2019 Elias Visontay EXCLUSIVE Engineers investigating defects at Sydney’s Opal Tower have raised doubts...
View ArticleBFCSA: BFCSA: Beware of Costello and O'Dwyer wanting control of your Super...
Future Fund tender plan for superannuation Australian Financial Review 15 Jan 2019 5:55 AM John Kehoe EXCLUSIVE The federal government would host competitive tenders to manage default superannuation...
View ArticleBFCSA: One third of self-managed super funds are too small to make adequate...
One third of self-managed super funds are too small to make adequate returns The New Daily 10:16pm, Jan 14 Rod Myer Almost half of Australians with self-managed super funds are undercutting their own...
View ArticleBFCSA: Australian Commercial property deals fall 9pc as transaction market...
Commercial property deals fall 9pc as transaction market enters downturn Australian Financial Review 14 Jan 2019 5:54 PM Larry Schlesinger Transaction activity in Australian commercial real estate...
View ArticleBFCSA: Labor's capital expenditure tax plan welcomed by business
Labor's capital expenditure tax plan welcomed by business Australian Financial Review 14 Jan 2019 8:00 PM John Kehoe Business pressure is building on the Morrison government to beat Labor's proposed...
View ArticleBFCSA: Banks turn to covered bonds as funding spreads widen. Need $100 Billion
Banks turn to covered bonds as funding spreads widen Australian Financial Review 14 Jan 2019 7:10 PM Jonathan Shapiro Australia's big four banks have turned to ultra-safe covered bonds to meet...
View ArticleBFCSA: Doping the Elderly- Epidemic in Aged Care: Nursing home residents...
Nursing home residents ‘doped for years at a time’ The Australian 12:00am January 15, 2019 Rick Morton EXCLUSIVE A damning submission to the aged-care royal commission reveals elderly nursing home...
View ArticleBFCSA: She won't be right: the economic storm our leaders ignore
She won't be right: the economic storm our leaders ignore Sydney Morning Herald 18 January 2019 12:00am John Hewson John Hewson is a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, and a former...
View ArticleBFCSA: Are we headed towards high noon for democracy? Neoliberalism
Are we headed towards high noon for democracy? The Australian 12:00am January 18, 2019 Henry Ergas In 1923, as the Weimar Republic struggled with chaos, the German polymath Carl Schmitt wrote a short...
View ArticleBFCSA: NZ move could cut bank payouts
NZ move could cut bank payouts The Australian 12:44pm January 17, 2019 Joyce Moullakis New Zealand’s proposed higher bank capital requirements are “unnecessary and potentially damaging” and could...
View ArticleBFCSA: Opal builder Icon sets date for big fix, but it will take four to six...
Opal builder Icon sets date for big fix, but it will take four to six weeks The Australian 12:00am January 18, 2019 Ean Higgins The builder of the cracked Opal Tower in Sydney’s west plans to start...
View ArticleBFCSA: Royal Commissioner Hayne’s grenade about to explode
Hayne’s grenade about to explode The Australian 12:00am January 18, 2019 Joyce Moullakis Just two weeks stand between the beleaguered financial services sector and the wash-up from the biggest probe...
View ArticleBFCSA: ASIC snubs two-thirds of MySuper funds in default search
ASIC snubs two-thirds of MySuper funds in default search Australian Financial Review 17 Jan 2019 11:00 PM Joanna Mather EXCLUSIVE The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is tendering...
View ArticleBFCSA: Chinese investors protest against new crackdown on investment
Chinese investors protest against new crackdown on investment Australian Financial Review 17 Jan 2019 11:44 PM Su-Lin Tan The Foreign Investment Review Board's decision to increase the level of...
View ArticleBFCSA: Liberal Party shock as Kelly O'Dwyer quits politics ahead of election
Liberal Party shock as Kelly O'Dwyer quits politics ahead of election The Liberal Party will lose one of its most senior women and moderate figures with Jobs and Industrial Relations Minister Kelly...
View ArticleBFCSA: Liberal Senator BUSHBY announces resignation, gets plum overseas post...
Liberal senator David Bushby's resignation from federal politics came out of the blue at 1.10pm on Friday, with the Tasmanian saying he looked forward to "a new chapter in my professional career". It...
View ArticleBFCSA: Property index points to Aussie recession Bryan Kavanagh Macro Busn &...
Property index points to Aussie recession Macro Business8:01 am on January 18, 2019 Cross-posted from Prosper Australia Real estate cycle expert Bryan Kavanagh says turnover and price declines in...
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