PROPERTY
Funds management
Real Estate Capital Partners has relaunched the property securities fund formerly known as the Trafalgar Enhanced Income Fund, with a goal to grow the offering from its c...
Financial planning
Property funds management group First Capital has signalled its intentions to buy Sovereign Capital, a Gold Coast-based construction lending business, for a purchase pric...
Superannuation
A new retirement and aged care industry fund is on the horizon, following talks between Primelife Corporation and Babcock & Brown, although details are yet to be finalise...
Financial planning
The Supreme Court of New South Wales has extended orders preventing the sole director of Palentia, formerly known as Kebbel, from leaving the country and disposing of his...
Financial planning
A change to the Bankruptcy Act, which forces the family home to be held in the names of both spouses from May 31, has been slammed by some advisers as having potentially ...
Financial planning
Baby boomers with adult children at home are more financially vulnerable than their ‘empty nester’ counterparts, according to research by Nielsen Media Research for Wizar...
Financial planning
In a move Macquarie Bank is calling an Australian first, its portfolio loan customers can now draw unlimited funds from their loan facility online....
Funds management
Australia’s property funds management industry has grown by 30 per cent, or $65 million, in funds under management since 2004, despite the number of funds available to in...
Financial planning
Mercer Global Investments (MGI) has launched an income fund that represents its first product purely aimed at retail investors....
Financial planning
The corporate regulator has urgently sought orders to restrain the sole director of Palentia, a company formerly known as Kebbel, from leaving the country following a tip...
Financial planning
Equity Trustees EQT has boosted its responsible entity RE business by signing up Putnam and an additional two US fund managers entering the Australian market....
Funds management
Australian property fund managers will increasingly look to the US for real estate opportunities, as investment in this asset class soars, according to Fiduciary Global A...
Funds management
Strong inflows to its newly launched Century Balanced Fund No 1 has helped direct property boutique Century Funds Management to a 16.1 per cent return (annualised over fi...
Superannuation
With the oldest of the baby-boomer generation now pushing 60, the Government is making a concerted push to keep older workers in the workforce to lessen the burden on the...
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