property

Financial planning

Property Securities (Australia): No style bias a winner for ING

With no style bias in its investment equation, ING Investment Management has maintained its position in the market, according to its director of real estate securities, J...

Financial planning

Schroders soars

Schroders Investment Management named Fund Manager of the Year at the 2009 Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year Awards....

Financial planning

New agribusiness tool launched

An online tool has been launched to enable advisers to build their clients risk-rated agribusiness portfolios....

Superannuation

Dangers still lurk when borrowing in SMSFs

There are still a number of legal issues that need to be resolved by the ATO and Treasury in relation to borrowing within SMSFs, and these grey areas represent a potentia...

Funds management

Direct property managers changing tack to overcome business woes

Many direct property managers blame the government guarantee for the negative impact on their businesses, and will now change the way they market themselves to investors ...

Editorial

Have we hit bottom yet?

Everyone agrees it is difficult to market time and there’s no point in trying to pick the bottom of the market. Yet every second conversation in the markets today revolve...

Financial planning

Looking for share investment advice in all the wrong places

There’s still more to say when it comes to forecasts, timing the market and financial advisers, says MICHAEL DALE....

Superannuation

Property acquisitions and SMSFs

CRAIG DAY considers whether trustees of an SMSF can intentionally acquire a residential property from a related party of the fund....

Funds management

CFS Property fund suffers 11.9 valuation decline

Colonial First State Property's decision to revalue the assets within its Commonwealth Property Office Fund has seen an 11.9 per cent decline in book value....

Financial planning

A guide to safe margin lending

Margin lending can reap rewards for investors when times are good, but can prove disastrous in bear markets. LUCINDA BEAMAN finds out what makes up a successful margin le...

Financial planning

The de facto law revolution

Couples should be aware of new laws relating to de facto relationships, writes NABIL WAHHAB....

Editorial

Shopping for valuation transparency

Notwithstanding that the valuation of unlisted assets held by superannuation funds has been an issue for at least six to nine months, the Australian Prudential Regulation...

Editorial

Bankwest records $139 million loss in 2008

Increased provisions to counter property exposure in NSW and Queensland....

Financial planning

Government creating Australia's own housing disaster

The government subsidies being given to first home owners, at a time when interest rates are low and unemployment is on the rise, could be adding to an already heavy debt...