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New research has revealed the illogical nature of allocating only a small percentage of an investment portfolio to direct property, which in the past decade has provided ...
Funds management
Australian investors are beginning to re-evaluate their positions in core property to try to get better value for money, according to a senior property fund manager at AM...
Funds management
First Capital Group has paid $17.8 million for a residential development project in New Zealand in a bid to increase diversification and growth of its portfolio....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained injunctions in the Brisbane Supreme Court to stop a managed investment scheme involving $11 million....
Financial planning
Wealth management applications provider Bravura Solutions has consolidated its presence in the UK market with the acquisition of Rufus Software and Rufus GTA software fro...
Funds management
Mirvac Group will make a $1.124 billion acquisition of properties and businesses from Walker Corporation....
Funds management
Multiplex Capital, the property funds management division of Multiplex Group, will establish a new European property fund, the Multiplex European Property Fund...
Funds management
Macquarie Real Estate has made a $30 million equity investment in St Hilliers property group as part of a joint venture in the property funds management and development s...
Financial planning
Nearly half of the women aged 45 to 64 are investing in assets over and above their super to save for their retirement, according to a survey by Commonwealth Financial Pl...
Financial planning
Superannuation fund returns continued to defy precedent, with average returns this month taking the annual returns up to October 2006 to 13.8 per cent, up from 10.7 per c...
Financial planning
Private residential property equity seems set to become a more prominent feature of financial planning, according to a recent Trowbridge Deloitte survey finding that almo...
Financial planning
Lonsec’s latest review of Australian hybrid property funds has reflected confidence in both the sector and selected managers....
Financial planning
ING has enhanced the investment choice on its OneAnswer platform menu with the addition of three new funds....
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