PROPERTY

Financial planning

Listed property has recovered since the massive lows of the global financial crisis, but there are plenty of challenges ahead for the industry, particularly investor sent...

Editorial

The CGT for non-residents is determined by whether the asset is considered to be ‘taxable Australian property’. Learn more about CGT discount for non-residents....

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s Fund Services (S&P) has placed a ‘sell’ rating on the AMP Capital Equity Fund following the resignation of Simon Fitzgerald, t...

Funds management

Implemented Portfolios has an underweight allocation to international equities and property due to a subdued 10-year outlook for economic growth and uncertainty across de...

Superannuation

The average inflows into SMSFs almost doubled in the second quarter, but total contributions were still down 22 per cent on the 2008-9 financial year, according to a Mult...

Financial planning

The global financial crisis has been a game changer and, as Dominic McCormick writes, advisers need to view previously conventional buy and hold strategies as being tanta...

Financial planning

Renowned Harvard-based economic historian Niall Ferguson believes Western investors are far better off spending in India than China, in terms of market sustainability and...

Financial planning

Century Funds Management will seek to become the new responsible entity for the $100 million Becton Office Fund No 2, following a request from shareholders. ...

Funds management

Investor and adviser sentiment towards property investing will improve as fund managers learn the lessons of the global financial crisis (GFC), according to Charter Hall....

People & Products

UBS Global Asset Management has reappointed National Australia Bank's asset servicing division to provide custody and administration services for UBS GAM's A$8.1 billion ...

Financial planning

Platinum International Brands global share fund was the best performing managed fund in the June quarter - one of the very few that achieved a positive return....

Financial planning

Van Eyk Research's Three Pillars Portfolio Managers is underwriting a $36.4 million rights issue in the ING Real Estate Entertainment Fund (IEF)....

Financial planning

ASIC has moved against what it believes is a Ponzi scheme that extracted $16 million from investors....

Editorial

Gemma Dale outlines the implications recent legislation could have for SMSF trustees who want to use limited recourse borrowing arrangements to acquire allowable assets....

Financial planning

Master trusts have outperformed industry funds in the year to June 2010, but only for the second time in the past decade, according to latest figures from Chant West....

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