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Here's how superannuation is already financing homes

  • Written by James Giesecke, Professor, Centre of Policy Studies and the Impact Project, Victoria University
imageAt least ten cents in every dollar of superannuation assets is indirectly financing house purchases via commercial bank debt.AAP/Lukas Coch

The federal government is split on whether first home buyers in Australia should be allowed to use part of their superannuation for home deposits. But what the more strident critics miss is that...

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