PROPERTY

Editorial

Dominic McCormick explains why it is time to increase the heat on the frozen funds littering the mortgage, high yield, property and hedge fund sectors....

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Financial planning

The former director of the investment company Chartwell Enterprises, Graeme Hoy, has been committed to stand trial on charges brought by ASIC....

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Financial planning

Deep value investing has returned to favour since March 2009, but many managers missed the rebound after switching to a higher quality portfolio, according to a review of...

Funds management

Property syndicates were once a popular means to invest in direct property, but could they be making a comeback?...

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Funds management

Former Macquarie bank fund manager, Oswyn de Silva, has been restrained after trying to leave Australia in breach of court orders....

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Financial planning

There could be changes in the 2010 Federal Budget to the way gearing in super operates, although there has not yet been any official indication from the Government, accor...

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People & Products

Russell Investments has appointed Nicole Connolly as head of alternatives advice in Australia....

Funds management

Peter Townsend explains the five perils faced by SMSF borrowers, and shows how they can be avoided....

Financial planning

Victorian woman who operated Ponzi scheme via a mortgage broking business pleads guilty to six counts of deception....

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Funds management

ADPIA's most recent industry survey shows that almost 75 per cent of property fund managers are considering merger and acquisition activity over the next 12 months....

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Financial planning

Australia will be vulnerable to a second financial crisis if interest rates continue to rise, according to a leading equity strategist....

Financial planning

More than 1,000 investors have found themselves tied up in property development schemes that have been identified as illegal....

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Funds management

The Property Council/IPD Australia Property Index has confirmed that the commercial property investment market is in a recovery phase....

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Funds management

Former Westpoint director Norm Carey is planning a return to property development but says he doesn't plan on using retail funds, according to an article in The Australia...

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Funds management

The Multiplex Diversified Property Fund is to be wound up, with investors to have the option of receiving assets as cash or in-specie distribution....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

3 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

5 months 1 week ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

2 weeks 6 days ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

3 weeks 4 days ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

2 weeks 4 days ago