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Treasurer Scott Morrison has asked the Productivity Commission to examine the idea of a formal competitive process.

Government mulls national default super scheme to save $1.5b

The Turnbull government is considering a radical shakeup of Australia's superannuation system that would pit banks and industry funds against each other for the right to manage the deposits of every new entrant for at least two years.

The current FBT treatment of vehicles is particularly dumb policy.

Labor and coalition agree to keep tax lurk

If the government and Labor were serious about budget savings, they could agree to scrap a $1.8 billion tax lurk that benefits the few at the expense of the majority.

Illustration: John Shakepeare.

It's gold or bust for miner Kingsgate

A Thai media mogul is offering just $5 million to buy half of an Aussie gold miner which was worth $2 billion as recently as 2011. And there is only one small hitch between this raider and a billion dollar pay day.

UBS Asset Management head of fixed income Anne Anderson says Australian bonds ran harder than their global peers on a ...

Bond sell-off suggests RBA on hold

Australian bonds are selling off harder than their global developed peers, in a sign investors think the RBA may be done with cutting rates.

The Perron Group has sold the Campbelltown Mall for $197 million in an off market deal to Charter Hall and MTAA Super.

Charter Hall seeds new fund with $197m mall

Charter Hall Group is to seed a new wholesale retail partnership with the superfund MTAA with the $197 million acquisition of the Campbelltown Mall, Sydney from the Perron Group on a market capitalisation rate of 6 per cent.

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