PROPERTY

Financial planning

Small cap initial public offers generated outstanding returns for investors in 2005, eclipsing the performance of their larger company counterparts on average by 15 per c...

Funds management

Macquarie Bank has signed an American fund manager that invests in global property securities to the fifth instalment of its Professional Series....

People & Products

Boutique property fund manager and developer Sovereign MF has appointed industry stalwart Colin Owens to build its distribution strategy....

Financial planning

Following the successful capital raising for Ray White Invest first retail property unit trust, the fund management division of the Ray White estate agency business inten...

Financial planning

Superannuation investors have enjoyed a second consecutive year of returns in the double-digits according to the 2005 Mercer Pooled Fund Survey, with the median fund in t...

Financial planning

Boutique fund incubator Equity Trustees has gotten off to an exceptional start for the 2005-06 financial year, having posted a 190 per cent increase in net fund inflows f...

People & Products

Melbourne-based research house Lonsec has placed the UBS Property Securities Fund on hold, following the exit of UBS property head John Snowden to Colonial First State....

Editorial

SAITeysMcMahon head of property Graham Brewer says direct property investment is looking “exceptionally good”....

Financial planning

Days after boutique research house Zenith released an assessment critical of the mortgage fund industry, another report has concluded that mortgage funds will find it inc...

Financial planning

The upgrading of resource stocks will determine the performance of the Australian stock market in 2006, according to Portfolio Partners head of equities Glen Hart....

Financial planning

The outlook for the financial services industry in 2006 is, as the French would say, plus ça change — the more it changes, the more it is the same....

Financial planning

Overseas property will dominate the listed property trust (LPT) sector in 2006, says researcher Property Investment Research (PIR)....

Financial planning

So you have a million dollars to invest. Let’s start by making some general assumptions; you own the property you live in, have no outstanding debts, you’re under 50-year...

Financial planning

As Colonial First State’s global listed property offering languishes with Morningstar’s lowest ‘avoid’ rating following the loss of its team to Perennial, BT’s global lis...

Financial planning

ING has made a three-pronged improvement to its OneAnswer platform through the addition 16 funds, a reduction in fees charged and an enhancement of the product’s online c...

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