Get insights into current market conditions and how Moore Australia's Wealth Management team is navigating them. 

Get insights into current market conditions and how Moore Australia's Wealth Management team is navigating them. Read about the recent quarterly investment committee meeting and the team's long-term views on markets. Contact us for more information.

Whether it’s after being left a property, buying a new block of land, or realising that you’d be better off selling some of the acreage attached to your home, many people around Australia may at some point find themselves embarking on an exercise to leverage their real estate to its best advantage.
 

Managed Investment Trusts are registered schemes established and managed by sophisticated Trustees holding an Australian Financial Services License. They enable investors to pool capital to collectively acquire large scale commercial, retail and industrial properties. Operations are typically limited to passive investment income (leasing). Entities are typically set up as up as unit trusts which provides investors with clearly defined rights to income and capital, yet retaining access to Capital Gains Tax (CGT) concessions.
 

Eligible businesses may access up to $1 million in funding under Investment New South Wales’ new Research and Development Fund in the government’s bid to stimulate the development of innovative products that directly address the impacts of COVID-19.

The New South Wales government's COVID-19 TechVoucher program provides support funding for technology-rich startups, scaleups, or small-medium enterprises to collaborate with Publicly Funded Research Organisations (PFRO) to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative R&D products and services that address ongoing disruptions.

The Australian Government is offering co-funded grants up to $200m to encourage business investment in major manufacturing projects.

International investors, businesses and researchers are invited to partner with Australian organisations under the program.

Over the last six months we’ve seen an increasing popularity in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. This is due to varying factors such as the maturing of regulatory environments, companies moving their treasuries into Bitcoin and investment groups such as BlackRock looking towards the sector for investment. It is also often cited that the rise in popularity of these deflationary digital currencies is at least in part due to the unprecedented amount of quantitative easing occuring around the world. 

Stamp duty (or transfer duty) is a financial burden that may deter individuals and families from entering the property market and acts as a barrier to investment opportunities. It raises the issue of whether stamp duty is still appropriate in the modern economic landscape and calls for replacing stamp duty with a broad-based land tax are getting louder. This issue was considered by NSW Treasury in a recent report NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations -Supporting the road to recovery (the NSW Report).