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- Australia’s population growth slowing as migrant numbers fade
With cuts to the migration intake, Australia’s annual rate of population growth is the lowest recorded since 2006. At the same time serious labour shortages are becoming apparent within Australia’s key economic driver: the resources sector. The most recent demographic … Continue reading →
- What happens when Australian property values correct?
Australian residential housing prices and their direction is a hotly debated topic both locally and overseas. In this week’s Property Pulse we take a look at some key examples where distinct phases of capital gain have been followed by a … Continue reading →
- Australia’s population growth slowing as migrant numbers fade
Category Archives: General Information
Australia’s population growth slowing as migrant numbers fade
With cuts to the migration intake, Australia’s annual rate of population growth is the lowest recorded since 2006. At the same time serious labour shortages are becoming apparent within Australia’s key economic driver: the resources sector. The most recent demographic … Continue reading
Posted in General Information, Investing, Property
Research Insight
The big issue across the globe at present is inflation. At the start of the year, sharply rising food prices prompted riots in Algeria, with dissatisfaction quickly spreading to Tunisia and Egypt. The unrest in Egypt also served to unsettle … Continue reading
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RP Data Industry Market Wrap
On Friday of last week the Reserve Bank (RBA) released their Quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy. In their statement, the RBA provide forecasts of their expectation for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and for Inflation for each six month period … Continue reading
Posted in General Information, Property
Top 5 mobile applications for Business owners
There are a myriad of mobile phone applications in the market but keep your eye out for these great business apps to use when you’re working on the go. Mobile phone applications are becoming more sophisticated with developers coming up … Continue reading
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Market Wrap
One day the sharemarket is up, the next day it’s down. This may seem like a normal situation, but the bulls and bears have been actually been embroiled in this tug o’ war for a number of months now with … Continue reading
Posted in General Information, Investing
China’s housing keeps housing us
The hardcore gold bug brigade are so keen to push the idea that the global financial system is doomed and that gold is only thing in the world worth having that they twist and ignore facts with wild abandon.
Posted in Debt Management, General Information, Property
Growth and opportunity remain in Asia
You might not think it from the correction in equity markets in recent weeks, but David Urquart says economic data from the start of the year suggests that the global recovery is becoming increasingly well entrenched, at least in Asia. … Continue reading
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Is Greece’s debt crisis contagious?
For only 3% of the eurozone economy and just under 0.5% of the world economy, Greece has caused big trouble around the world lately. The question is whether steps by authorities to counter the Greek-inspired turmoil will be enough to … Continue reading
Posted in General Information, Investing
Why urbanisation matters for investors
Within the next two decades, the entire US population will move into China’s cities. Alright, not the US population, per se. But 350 million Chinese will leave behind their rural life in a move expected to provide a massive impetus … Continue reading
Posted in General Information, Investing, Property
Making up lost time
The investment clock is stuck at 7.30, but shares will tick higher again. Financial markets remain firmly in the grip of the early stages of the Recovery Phase on the Investment Clock, with economic data for most of the first … Continue reading
Posted in General Information, Investing, Superannution
