Selling or Leasing a Property with a Swimming Pool in NSW Selling a Property: A valid swimming pool certificate of compliance must be attached to the contract for sale of properties with a swimming pool or spa pool from 29 April 2014. After that date when a property with a swimming pool is being sold, a valid swimming pool... Read more
Foreign residents and Australians who have lived abroad may be affected by recent changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) discount. This will have implications for many of our Expat clients, who will not fully realise the capital gains tax discounting expected upon sale of a property. Previously if you had a capital gain, for example from the sale of... Read more
By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 12 2014 Key points Australian housing has seen a normal response to lower interest rates. House prices are up and a building boom is on the way. This will help the economy rebalance. The home buyer market is a long way from the bubble... Read more
Younger is better Financial advice is not just for baby boomers on the verge of retirement. If you are career oriented, in your 30’s or 40’s and have high hopes for yourself financially, then you would benefit from talking to a financial adviser. It’s not just about superannuation Superannuation is important, but for you it is also 20 years or... Read more
By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 10 2014 Key points The situation in Ukraine could get worse before it gets better and so it remains a threat for investors to keep an eye on in the short term. Ultimately, it poses a greater threat to the Russian economy than to... Read more
By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 9 2014 Key points While the global economy is gradually mending, returns will still be constrained and volatile relative to the long term bull market that got underway in the 1980s. As a result asset allocation will remain critically important for investors – particularly... Read more
By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 8 2014 Key points While headline news regarding the economy has been bleak, December quarter GDP showed the economy is not collapsing and lower interest rates & the lower $A do seem to be boosting forward indicators for the economy. As a result growth... Read more
By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 7 2014 Key points The US economy is yet again reinventing itself. This has been helped along by a determination to get the US economy moving again after the global financial crisis but the real drivers are an energy boom, a manufacturing renaissance and... Read more
By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 6 2014 Key points Chinese debt levels are rising too fast and the growth of its shadow banking sector poses risks. However, providing the authorities continue to gradually try and slow both down the risks should be manageable. Chinese growth looks like coming in... Read more
By Shane Oliver, Head of Investment Strategy & Chief Economist from Oliver’s Insights, AMP Capital, Edition 5 2014 Key points For periods of time it may pay to back the crowd in investing, eg, when a bull or bear market is developing. But at extremes the crowd is invariably wrong. Eventually everyone who wants to buy will have done so... Read more