Andrew Hobbs

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Andrew Hobbs |Michelle Bowes

May 20, 2025 – 5.14pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Labor says it has “no intention” to cave to demands by the Greens that self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) be banned from speculative property investment in exchange for the party’s support on the $3 million super tax.

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Andrew Hobbs |Phillip Coorey

Labor’s proposed tax on unrealised gains in higher superannuation balances will stop dead a major source of funding for the technology sector, hitting start-up businesses and chilling investment more broadly, venture capitalists say.

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Andrew Hobbs |Michelle Bowes

With markets jumping down, up and sideways since Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs, investors are still getting used to the new world order. And while the mood on equity markets has swung between panic and blind optimism, especially now that Trump has “de-liberated” on China, the lull could be an opportunity for some prudent rebalancing in your portfolio before anything worse happens. Loading...

1 month ago | afr.com | Michelle Bowes |Andrew Hobbs |Lucy Dean

Michelle Bowes, Andrew Hobbs and Lucy DeanMay 9, 2025 – 11.24am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? For Jamie Nemtsas, principal of Melbourne-based financial advisory Wattle Partners, the plan to lift the tax rate on the earnings of superannuation balances above $3 million to 30 per cent isn’t just creating a headache for him at work. It’s also personal. Loading...

1 month ago | afr.com | Andrew Hobbs |Zoe Samios

Tim Hamilton’s uncle managed the North Sydney Bears for 30 years. In his playing days, the now 57-year-old was good enough to compete for the club in the Jersey Flegg Cup – NSW’s under-21s rugby league competition. But he drifted away from the team when it fell out of the premiership league 25 years ago, after being a foundation club in a NSW competition that has since grown into an increasingly national behemoth, with multibillion-dollar broadcasting deals. Loading...