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Is the CFMEU the reason none of your friends can buy a house?
Experts say sheer union bargaining power has helped to push wages up across the entire construction industry, and that is filtering through to property prices.
- Lucy Dean
Revealed: Which super funds rate the best – and worst – for retirement
Superannuation funds are going backwards in terms of preparing their customers for retirement, new research shows.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- US election
Second subprime crisis more likely with Trump in the White House
Investors need to start preparing for how a re-elected Donald Trump will shape inflation, interest rates, and hence asset prices.
- Christopher Joye
New $3m super tax is ‘stealing my children’s inheritance’
Family enterprises face hard questions about whether to abandon their succession and retirement plans by selling their shops, farms and factories,
- Duncan Hughes
The Aussie funds that beat bitcoin and big tech
It was often savvy bets at the smaller end of the market that shot the top-performing fund managers to the top of the leader table in the last financial year.
- Updated
- Joshua Peach
APRA puts onus on Cbus to ensure CFMEU directors are fit, proper
Senators have called for the construction industry fund to cut ties with the CFMEU amid allegations of criminality at the union. The prudential regulator says it is up to superannuation fund boards.
- Hannah Wootton
Wealthiest Australians
How exquisite timing and meditating shaped this Rich Lister’s fortune
After deciding a career in law wasn’t for him, Kerry Harmanis turned to prospecting in WA. That decision led to the $3.1 billion sale of Jubilee Mines.
- Julie-anne Sprague
They’re young, rich, and in the French Riviera
Cashed-up, glamorous young Aussies have descended on Saint-Tropez and Monte Carlo, spending their time on superyachts and at $1500-plus per night hotels.
- Yolanda Redrup
The workshop that teaches young rich kids to manage huge fortunes
During family retreats, kids start learning about managing money and donating to charity from an early age.
- Lucy Dean
This Month
Can I put $360,000 into super before my divorce settlement?
A reader getting $1.9 million from her ex-husband’s super fund wants advice on maximising her savings and the $15,000 she already has in her fund.
- John Wasiliev
ATO targets property valuations in countdown to new $3m super tax
SMSFs are in the firing line for failing to update the market value of investment properties and commercial buildings such as farms and medical practices.
- Duncan Hughes
ART closes in on AustralianSuper’s top spot with new merger
The deal will add Qantas’ $9 billion in funds under management to the Australian Retirement Trust’s ballooning $280 billion-plus asset pool.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Private equity
Private equity has become hazardous terrain for investors
The days of easy windfalls from freakishly loose monetary policy are gone. Now, private capital is much more hazardous terrain for investors.
- John Plender
Top 10 super funds revealed for FY24
A small mining industry fund delivered the highest returns for the second year in a row, with two retail super giants joining it in first place.
- Hannah Wootton
Reshaping finance
Probing the changing outlook for cryptocurrency investing, decentralised assets, blockchain technology and Web 3.0 at the Financial Review’s Crypto & Digital Assets Summit 2024.
- Opinion
- Property market
Where to profit from Brisbane’s Olympic property boom
How to work out where to invest so that your gains hold for the long term.
- Jarrod McCabe
- Opinion
- Superannuation
Spending a few hours on this now will make you richer later
Work through these 11 steps to grow your superannuation faster.
- Colin Lewis
Not rich enough! Why my financial adviser dumped me
Half a million Australians have been ‘sacked’ by their financial planners as firms clamour to win wealthier clients.
- Penny Wise
These cheap mining stocks still offer opportunity for investors
A drop in mining business valuations has opened a window of opportunity for investors looking to lock in cheap prices and potentially big dividends.
- Tom Richardson
Super giant is ‘comfortable’ being among the worst funds for FY24
Industry super fund Hostplus’ annual return for its default product was among the lowest in the sector, but CIO Sam Sicilia says its long-term plan is solid.
- Hannah Wootton
Popularity of sustainable ETFs dives to lowest in a decade
Platinum Asset Management will terminate its Global Transition Fund due to low demand.
- Michelle Bowes and Joanna Mather
The $1m investment that will give you warm fuzzies and a tax deduction
These funds are the vehicle chosen by many wealthy families – this is how they work.
- Michael Hutton
How exquisite timing and meditating shaped this Rich Lister’s fortune
After deciding a career in law wasn’t for him, Kerry Harmanis turned to prospecting in WA. That decision led to the $3.1 billion sale of Jubilee Mines.
- Julie-anne Sprague
The surprising asset class the rich are using to build wealth
An increasing number of seasoned and wealthy investors are increasing their exposure to ETFs, an asset class that has been typically associated with the young.
- Michelle Bowes
They’re young, rich, and in the French Riviera
Cashed-up, glamorous young Aussies have descended on Saint-Tropez and Monte Carlo, spending their time on superyachts and at $1500-plus per night hotels.
- Yolanda Redrup
- Opinion
- Interest rates
This rule suggests the US is on the brink of recession
The gradual increase in US unemployment has almost satisfied the “Sahm rule”, which has correctly identified the inception of all US recessions.
- Christopher Joye
