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Financial planning

01 Mar

Listed property booms in 2000

Listed Property Trusts (LPTs) were back in favour in 2000, recording a 17.2 per cent return compared to the All Ords 7.4 per cent for the year....

Financial planning

01 Mar

Oversupply bites Brisbane and Melbourne

Investors should be concerned about the Melbourne and Brisbane office markets in 2003 as potential oversupply of space bites, warns CB Richard Ellis head of research Kevi...

Financial planning

01 Mar

Tenancies Legislation could hurt retail property

Proposed changes to the Victorian retail tenancies act could have a negative impact on the sector if the review is not amended before this is enacted, warns Property Coun...

Financial planning

01 Mar

Melbourne industrial takes on Sydney

Melbourne is expected to be the stronger industrial market compared to Sydney, based in construction growth in the past couple of years....

Financial planning

01 Mar

AXA Alliance no miracle cure

Alliance Capital’s global vice chairman Alfred Harrison is playing down expectations of the group’s joint venture with AXA. ...

Financial planning

27 Feb

CPAs warned they still need licences

CPA Australia expects many of its members will still have to apply for a financial services licence, despite the body probably being granted a professional body exemption...

Financial planning

26 Feb

First for education funds

The Australian Scholarships Group Friendly Society (ASG) has launched two new education funds, enabling investment in fixed interest securities for the first time....

Financial planning

19 Feb

Microcaps: the forgotten performers

These days, microcaps do not attract much interest with equity investors, but as John Wilkinson reports, there is good cause for that to change....

Financial planning

15 Feb

Microcaps: of the unloved

Microcaps do not attract much interest with equity investors, although the sector accounts for 80 per cent of the listed companies in Australia....

Funds management

15 Feb

Direct property to weather economic storm

Direct property investments are well-placed to withstand any downturn in the economy during 2001, a leading property researcher told the Property Council conference last ...