PROPERTY

Financial planning

An Adelaide-based managed investment scheme that allegedly owes at least 78 investors about $56 million has been closed off by an interim order of the Federal Court....

Financial planning

Leading actuarial firm, Rice Walker has entered into a joint venture with the Australian National University aimed at compiling a more comprehensive picture of Australia’...

Top 100

Business overheads insurance remains one of the least understood and least familiar insurance concepts to consumers and advisers alike, but providers are continuing to st...

Financial planning

The double digit returns secured by the majority of Australian superannuation funds in 2004-05 have been reinforced by REST Superannuation which last week announced a 12....

Financial planning

Financial planners and retail investors are supporting a wider range of capital market vehicles than ever, but are becoming more discerning in doing so, according to KPMG...

Financial planning

Most new property trusts in the next 12 months would feature overseas property as the famine of good quality Australian properties coming to market continued, a prominent...

Funds management

Mariner Financial has become the latest fund manager to launch an American property trust, the Mariner American Property Income Trust, which it claims will target high-yi...

Financial planning

The funds management arm of real estate giant Multiplex has bought 11 supermarkets scattered around provincial New Zealand and in Auckland to add to the other 22 retail, ...

Financial planning

MLC has taken the unusual step of terminating a mandate with Platinum Asset Management, one of four managers dropped in a global equity overhaul aimed at boosting after-t...

Financial planning

Citigroup Asset Management funds with any offshore exposure have been kept on hold by retail fund raters Standard & Poors, following the sale of the US firm to Legg Mason...

Editorial

Picking a fund manager that will consistently outperform over the long-term is like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And while advisers have greater acc...

Financial planning

The success of a dealer group is often measured by adviser numbers. However, examining the assets of the dealer group – that is, the funds under advice and the productivi...

Financial planning

A majority of Australian-based investment managers believe international equities will be the strongest performing asset class over the next 12 months....

Financial planning

Van Eyk and property research group, Managed Investment Assessments have released the first report completed under a strategic alliance formed by the companies in April t...

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