PROPERTY
Funds management
The margin loan outfits at Colonial First State, St George and Macquarie Bank are still the best in the country according to researcher Cannex, which has pointed to a lac...
Financial planning
Australian agribusiness investors have been warned to check the commission their financial planners receive and to access independent research themselves, before making a...
Funds management
Boutique Melbourne property manager Sovereign MF has launched its first property syndicate while settling a land deal for its residential fund....
Funds management
Six out of a possible 20 hedge funds have received a recommended rating from Zenith Investment Partners, in a review it said could help dissipate common misconceptions ab...
Funds management
Despite being a relatively new sector, international listed property is expanding rapidly, with considerable benefits for investors, according to Standard & Poor’s....
Superannuation
The latest AMP Capital/Investment Trends SMSF Investor Report has revealed compliance is now clearly the number one challenge being faced by people running their own supe...
Superannuation
With the marketplace gearing up for over 55’s to implement the Transition to Retirement (TTR) Strategy, financial planners and accountants need to ensure they optimise th...
Funds management
New financial products are opening the way for superannuation funds to use the fixed income component of their portfolios to boost alpha returns rather than relying predo...
Funds management
Australian investors slow to jump on the global property bandwagon are missing out, according to a new report on the property securities investment sector....
Financial planning
BT Financial Group has commenced the process of bringing the management of its four multi-manager offerings in-house in an effort to enhance the structure of these produc...
Financial planning
The Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (Sequal) has highlighted the difference between reverse mortgage products offered by its members and the fixe...
Funds management
Westpac Funds Management has galvanised its aim to establish the first Australian residential real estate investment trust by securing the seed asset for the product via ...
Financial planning
The Federal Court of Australia in Perth has granted an application by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and issued interim asset freezing orders agains...
Editorial
The two-year-old strategic alliance between Advance Asset Management and Mellon Global Investments has now passed the $1 billion mark in funds under management....
Funds management
Lonsec is the first researcher to reinstate an ‘investment grade’ rating for Colonial First State’s (CFS) Australian property funds following the recruitment of two more ...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...