Andrew Hobbs

Melbourne

Wealth reporter at Australian Financial Review

Ex-Kojonup and Perth, now Melbourne. Journalist (Not from the Financial Review). Personal account. Views my own but am willing to share.

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Articles

How to hack a family office investment strategy with ETFs

3 days ago | afr.com | Andrew Hobbs |Jessica Penny

It’s the ultimate measure of wealth. A dedicated team focused entirely on managing your money for the long term to build a legacy that will secure your financial future for generations to come and even give some broader purpose to that wealth. We are talking about family offices, and with the wealthiest Australians getting richer, there is a boom underway. The latest numbers show there are at least 2000 family offices in Australia, after growth of 150 per cent over the past decade. Loading...
Labor’s $3 million superannuation tax has a $10 million surprise

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Andrew Hobbs

You would need $10 billion in superannuation to pay an effective tax rate of 15 per cent under Labor’s new levy on big balances known as Division 296 tax, analysis shows. But other modelling suggests the tax sting could be as high as 46.52 per cent for some individuals when Division 296 is added to the existing 15 per cent tax on super earnings. Loading...
how to boost super and get a tax break to help your retirement

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Andrew Hobbs

Jun 10, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Anyone with less than $500,000 in superannuation can claim an easy tax deduction of as much as $44,400 before June 30, but that is just one of the many reasons people should review their super plan before the end of the financial year.
Commonwealth Bank shares made me rich but gave me a capital gains tax problem

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Andrew Hobbs

The massive surge in Commonwealth Bank shares in the past couple of years has huge implications for millions of Australians, even for people like me, who have never bought a single CBA share. That’s because, like a growing number of people, I inherited a slice of CBA shares when my father died. Loading...
Labor’s Jim Chalmers has ‘no intention’ of extending $3m superannuation tax to borrowing

1 month 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.
Tech titan Leigh Jasper and Angus Kennard slam Labor’s $3 million superannuation tax

1 month 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.
It’s ‘de-liberation’ day! How ETFs can Trump-proof your portfolio

1 month 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...
5 strategies to deal with Labor’s $3m super tax increase

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...
Bears fans back NRL club’s move to Perth - mostly

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...
Where the professionals would invest $5000 right now

2 months ago | afr.com | Lucy Dean |Andrew Hobbs |Michelle Bowes

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementTrading platforms experienced record volumes earlier this week as retail investors – apparently unperturbed by the turmoil – bought bruised American tech stocks, global ETFs and gold. But by Thursday the impulse to “buy the dip” had switched to “sell the rip”, according to Gemma Dale, the director of SMSF and investor behaviour at Nabtrade, which notched up recording trading volumes on Monday.