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Steve Waters, director of Right Property Group, chats about online auctions and why they resemble “a bad Zoom meeting”, the growing resilience of the property market, and how Sydney’s lengthy lockdown could shake things up.

RMIT’s senior lecturer of finance, Dr Angel Zhong, delves into short selling – the original trade that sent GameStop stock soaring – and how activist short-sellers are impacting markets.

And lastly, tax and super guru Timothy Munro talks about those early tax lodgers and possible ramifications, as well as detailing the temporary shortcut method, which you may be able to use this tax time.

Have a question for our experts? Get in touch at [email protected] and you might get featured on the next episode.

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Pink diamonds dazzle investors as price set to soar

By Grace Ormsby
September 24 2019

The closure of Rio Tinto’s Argyle Mine in Western Australia is expected to send the price of pink diamonds sky high at an upcoming auction.

Pink diamonds dazzle investors as price set to soar

By Grace Ormsby

September 24 2019
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The closure of Rio Tinto’s Argyle Mine in Western Australia is expected to send the price of pink diamonds sky high at an upcoming auction.

As one of the world’s rarest coloured diamonds, pink diamonds represent less than 0.1 per cent of all diamonds, with 90 per cent of the world’s output of coloured diamonds coming from the Argyle mine.

To put that into some form of perspective, the Western Australian mine’s annual production of pink diamonds “would fit in the palm of your hand”, according to a statement.

The recent announcement of the mine’s closure has hit news headlines worldwide, and has prompted speculation about the potential value of investing in coloured diamonds.

An upcoming auction will see a number of items containing pink diamonds go under the hammer this Thursday, 26 September 2019, and include a solitaire brilliant cut diamond and two rings that feature pink diamonds.

The upcoming sale follows the 2018 auction of a Pink Legacy diamond by another auction house for nearly $70 million.

Commenting on the pink diamonds up for grabs, Lloyds Auctions’ chief operations officer, Lee Hames, said: “This pink diamond is beyond rare and is in extremely high demand worldwide, so we feel very privileged to see one a year, but to have a few in the same auction is a privilege.

“We predict that these pink diamonds will sell far exceeding their valuations due to the closure of the mine, and the interest we have had so far.

“We have two rings featuring pink diamonds valued at nearly $600,000 as well as a solitaire brilliant cut diamond worth over $350,000 from the Argyle mine.”

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