Money, Money, Money
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There are two things that are certainties when it comes to life. The first is death and the other is taxes.
Happy Budget Day!
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It’s the second Tuesday of May and finance nerds around the country are writhing with excitement and anticipation for what is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important federal budgets in recent history.
Super: An Untapped Resource
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The Australian Taxation Office estimates that there is $18.1 billion in ‘lost superannuation’ across the country. This is a clear illustration of Australia’s complacency and typical disregard toward what for many will be either their largest (or second largest – to their principal place of residence) lifetime investment.
State of Origin: Home Town Bias
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We have all read the statistics: New South Wales has not won a State of Origin series since John Howard was Prime Minister. At that time, Facebook was still only a social forum of American college students, Black Caviar was not yet conceived, and the ‘Crazy Frog’ was piercing the eardrums of the globe.
A Super Opportunity
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Will I ever retire? This is the question on the minds of young Australia’s workforce, particularly those that are fluorescent-clad (previously known as blue-collar). One would not be hard pressed to find a 25-year-old fitter machinist daunted by the reality of working hard labour well into their 70s in order to maintain the delicate balance between contributors and recipients, which is set to be shaken to the limits as Australia ages.
Destination: Innovation Station
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‘It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste’ – Henry Ford
Single And Ready To Mingle: A Love Story
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Emily is a bright and enthusiastic young woman who never allowed the perception of a glass ceiling to get in her way as she climbed the corporate ladder in the gruesome world of advertising. After delaying marriage until age 32 to Mark, a banking IT type, they moved into an inner city apartment where they grew weary and resentful toward each other.
Vacancy Rates
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In last week’s newsletter we discussed the economic drivers that have led to the much reported softening yields that have occurred Australia wide. Today, we look at an important facet of the property investment market closely aligned to rental yields: vacancy rates.
The Yield Shift
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For the past five years, property investors who have been brave enough to invest despite the biggest financial crisis of a generation have enjoyed almost utopian conditions, low rates, limited competition for properties and high yields among them.
Ghost Towns
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1,300 kilometres shy of the North Pole stands a former-Soviet township of Pyramiden. Once a thriving town coined as ‘a Soviet paradise’, it was deserted in 1998 when the last tonne of coal was extracted from the soil. It is now maintained as a means for travellers to see ‘a town frozen in time’. An equally barren landscape is familiar to rural townships in Australia which apprehensively bear the same fate. Kiandra, NSW; Linda, TAS; and Malcolm, WA contribute to a long list of Australian towns deserted after the single industry that they depended on fatefully declined.
