property

Funds management

Challenger forced to seek independent property valuation

The Challenger International group has been forced by its auditor to seek an independent assessment of the methodology used to determine the value of its property assets....

Funds management

MacarthurCook makes play for property group

Fledgling property fund manager MacarthurCook has launched a bid to take control of listed property developer Lion Equities....

Financial planning

Lifestyle group MD faces sentencing

Two people associated with the failed Lifestyle property group in Melbourne will know their punishment later this month after being ordered to appear for sentencing in th...

Financial planning

There is a lot about now to remind us of then

WHILE it was the year Money Management was born, most people’s strongest memories centre around market upheavals – the 1987 sharemarket crash in particular....

Financial planning

Zurich, Deutsche alliance gets tick from Assirt

In Assirt’s rating of fund manager Zurich, the research house believed the integration process of the Zurich Scudder and Deutsche Asset Management businesses will bode we...

Editorial

What should we be doing in asset allocation?

In the last article I discussed what I believe are the limitations to the current approach to asset allocation of much of the financial planning (and funds management) in...

Editorial

Challenger’s hold on annuities takes profits higher

Challenger International has attributed a 24 per cent rise in year-on-year profits to an increase in sales of annuity and funds management products....

Financial planning

OFM a winner as a listed investment firm

OFM Investment Group has reported higher than expected year-end net profits, which were 9.2 per cent higher than forecast when the group listed on the Australian Stock Ex...

Financial planning

Macquarie wrap leads inflows: Assirt

Master trusts and wraps continue to snatch significant sums of money in the funds management game, drawing $5.9 billion in net inflows in the June 2002 quarter. But fortu...

Editorial

Income streams can flow from different sources

Diversification can be as important for investors looking for a regular income stream as it is for those looking for capital growth, writes ROB KEAVNEY....

Editorial

Risk tolerance: it’s all about returns

In a recent column, Robert Keavney reignited the risk profiling debate. LISA CHAMBERS argues that planners are legally obliged to understand their client’s risk tolerance...

Financial planning

Property rights for all but capital gains tax still unfair

Financial advisers need to be aware of the tax and property rights implications following the passage of new legislation passed by the NSW Parliament in June 1999. NABIL ...

Financial planning

Will LPTs lose their sparkle?

Investors are worried about LPTs, not because they have performed badly, but because they have performed so well. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....

Financial planning

Will property syndicates hit the wall?

While property remains a favoured asset class, syndicates are once again in the spotlight. But, as JOHN WILKINSON writes, planners should continue to tread carefully in t...

Financial planning

Solictor’s mortgages at the end of the line

At the start of last year, solicitor’s mortgages were the topic of much discussion, especially in the halls of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)...