PROPERTY
Funds management
The global property and real estate investment trust (REIT) markets have unexpectedly continued their blistering growth in the first quarter to March 2006, according to S...
Financial planning
Count Wealth Accountants has announced that reverse mortgage products provided by ABN Amro, Bluestone Equity Release and Macquarie Mortgages would be added to its recomme...
Funds management
MIR Investment Management has taken out the top prize in this year’s Money Management/IMCA Fund Manager of the Year Awards, fulfilling the promise it showed at last year’...
Financial planning
AMP Capital Investors has made its first serious foray into the retail market with the launch of four open ended funds through its Private Clients channel....
Funds management
A Melbourne-based fund manager has launched its first retail property, which includes government-leased properties as the assets....
Funds management
Satisfaction with existing investment manager mixes, coupled with strong performance in equity and fixed interest markets has seen a marginal downturn in manager search a...
Financial planning
Financial planners are threatening a boycott of Challenger products, after the collapse of one of the Packer-backed manager’s funds left clients with huge losses....
Financial planning
Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has introduced new measures to improve the transparency around fund ratings placed ‘on hold’....
Funds management
The Australian retail unlisted property trust sector experienced its largest annual capital raising in 2005, with funds under management rising by 30 per cent....
Financial planning
Wrap administration provider Praemium Portfolio Services has announced its intention to list on the Australian stock exchange through an $18 million initial public offeri...
Financial planning
Delivering comparatively high returns despite falling yields combined with above-average capital growth has placed actively-managed commercial property investments amongs...
Financial planning
Business restructures in the financial services and institutional divisions, along with last year’s strategic entry into a joint venture with Bank of New York, have deliv...
Financial planning
People who invested in a Packer-backed Challenger Financial Services’ property fund that invested in a Sydney shopping centre will only get a third of their original inve...
Financial planning
An associated company of Westpoint, Cinema City Mezzanine, is facing liquidation in the Federal Court of Australia as ASIC commences proceedings to wind up the company....
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