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"I'm on them all, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, but the truth is I can close a deal in three days on WeChat. I just closed a $10 million house in Vaucluse last week."

Wealthy Chinese buyers are snapping up multi-million-dollar properties with a live stream and a few clicks on Twitter-like WeChat.
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Recent revelations about toxic and poor workplace cultures at Uber and the Seven West Media highlight how issues relating to risk, safety, gender and harassment can't be swept under the rug.

To avoid these outcomes, executives have to examine the habits, rituals and routines that define the culture of their organisations - and take responsibility for them.
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With US equity markets suggesting growth and inflation and the Fed expected to raise interest rates this week, some are convinced the bond 'bull market' really is over.

One of the longest and most important trends in world finance may be on the cusp of a reversal.
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The vendors were seeking to get more than $3 million, but were offered high $2 million. So they reluctantly took it to auction.

A downsizing couple hoped to get $3 million for their family house on the quiet. They couldn't, and had to auction it.
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"I'm already the biggest investor in the fund but I'm very bullish on the natural resources market so I put more money in," Mr Bond says.

Boutique fund manager Terra Capital, run by Jeremy Bond, has produced an annualised return of 21 per cent since 2010. He is investing in cobalt and uranium.
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Spaceship, a start-up super fund that is aggressively targeting millennials via social media, has investment advisers alarmed.

Savvy marketing is enticing millennials to switch to a new super fund. But old heads are worried it is a risky proposition.
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Spaceship, which has the backing of venture capital and tech luminaries such as Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, is aggressively targeting millennials via social media.

Savvy marketing is enticing millennials to switch to a new super fund. But old heads are worried it is a risky proposition.
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Who do you think will win this game of high-stakes poker?

The executive assistant could be destroyed if she continues to fight the Seven group chairman, who is trying to silence her.
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Digital content delivery company Akamai Technologies' latest quarterly survey showed Australia topping the Asia-Pacific league table for mobile connectivity.

Next time your phone internet slows to a crawl on the train, remember Australia now has the fastest mobile web in the region.
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A bidding war has erupted over who is to build the battery farms to save South Australia's wobbly grid.

Tesla founder Elon Musk and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull talked batteries as rival suppliers declared they could also save South Australia's wobbly grid
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Here's the outlook for the ASX today.

Hope about economic growth here and overseas endures even as the outlook for oil and iron ore turn clouded.
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It will likely to be a meeting to remember, with Donald Trump and Angela Merkel due to sit down together in the Oval Office this week.

White House officials say they expect a 'robust' exchange between the two on issues ranging from the EU and the financing of NATO to trade and Islamic State.
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A day after speaking with South Australian premier Jay Weatherill about the state's base load power crisis, Elon Musk has a hour-long chat with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has stressed his support for battery storage technology during an hour-long phone call with Tesla founder Elon Musk on Sunday.
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The founder of one property development company says that Brisbane apartment sales would snap back if banks were more reasonable about lending to foreigners.

Tessa Property boss Brendan Tutt says if the banks changed lending terms for foreigners the market would jump 30 per cent.
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Australian colleges have a huge opportunity to train students overseas, says consulting firm KPMG.

KPMG has told the federal government that the world wants Australia's skills and will pay for them.
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Living alone is the fastest-growing housing trend in Australia and most of the major cities in the world.

It's the fastest growing trend in Australia, along with most of the major cities throughout the world.
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