PROPERTY

Funds management

Charter Hall targets HNW and SMSF investors with the launch of a second automotive retail property trust....

Features

Mark Ferguson explores the opportunities in Australian real estate investment trusts, and outlines the sector outlook in different segments....

Features

Although the global economy appeared to slow in the second half of last year, growth is forecast to pick up somewhat this year and then to lift again in 2017. To counter ...

People & Products

Charter Hall selects OneVue Fund Services to deliver on unit registry requirements....

Funds management

More Aussies would invest in a term deposit or a high interest account than super if they received a $100,000 windfall, according to BT Financial Group....

Knowledge Centre

How can advisers help clients gain the benefits of diversification through assets such as residential property, thereby helping smooth out market fluctuations and allowin...

Financial planning

A former company director has been sentenced to over two years in jail for fraudulently misappropriating almost $300,000 of investor funds in a property development in Qu...

Features

While fixed property holdings in SMSFs can be an attractive prospect there are many debt and liquidity risks associated and advisers have a number of factors they need to...

Financial planning

ASIC has secured orders restraining a property developer from promoting an “investment proposal”, which sought to counsel investor to breach the ASIC Act....

Life/Risk

ASIC has accepted an EU from Barakah Properties following concerns on how it raised funds to build an Islamic School in Melbourne. ...

Funds management

Despite a 3.9 per cent fall in the median Australian share manager, Australian listed property produced positive results over the year to 31 January 2016 at 7.3 per cent....

Financial planning

Australians rate divorce/separation as their most expensive mistake, costing an average $144,774 per person, followed by property investment mistakes....

Financial planning

A property adviser who took a 10-year advance on his salary to pay off a personal debt has been banned from engaging in credit activities for four years....

Funds management

DomaCom is closing its latest capital raising program ahead of schedule, having secured $8 million from investors, ahead of a planned IPO later this year. ...

Accounting

Advisers need to start preparing for changes to the way property leases will be treated on their balance sheets from 2019, an accountancy firm warns....

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