real estate investment

Financial planning

UBS GAM links with Grocon on Australian full service real estate and asset management platform....

Funds management

Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has proposed to merge its Australian Unity Fifth Commercial Trust (FCT) with its unlisted Australian Unity Office Property Fund (OPF), ...

Funds management

Alternatives for growth in a low cash rate environment

Despite interest rates remaining at historic lows, AMP Capital says there are five alternatives to cash and term deposits that may provide investors with growth opportuni...

Funds management

Regulation roadblock in SIV program

The Significant Investor Visa (SIV) program may significantly improve the net flow position of the local asset management industry – but the current regulatory environmen...

Financial planning

Northern Trust wins Kiwi mandate

Northern Trust picks up passive global equities mandate from New Zealand Superannuation Fund....

Editorial

Is it time investors reconsidered property?

Patrick Noble suggests investors should stop overlooking property and reap the rewards from the renaissance. ...

Funds management

Listed property performance unlikely to continue

High-level investment team turnover in the listed property funds management sector is likely to affect return performance over the next 12 months, according to Zenith Inv...

Editorial

Asset allocation – making choices that add up

Asset allocation is typically sold as a simple stocks-versus-bonds split, but there is much more to it than that if you want an effective result. Bhanu Singh points to a ...

Superannuation

Domestic growth assets less than stellar

Domestic growth assets recorded poor results in May this year, according to Morningstar's Australian Institutional Sector Survey....

Editorial

Direct or listed property? Investors weigh up their options

Investors are flooding back to property, and as they do they might start asking whether direct or listed is the way to go – or perhaps even both. Freya Purnell writes....

Funds management

Aussie REIT sector still robust, says SSgA

Australia’s listed property market has changed significantly since the GFC and should continue to generate “robust income opportunities for investors,” according to SSgA....

Editorial

Why investors should consider alternatives to residential property

As interest rates fall, making cash and term deposits less attractive to investors, there’s an increased level of interest in property. However, a stampede back into the ...

Financial planning

Planners see growth appetite bounce back

With investment concern levels dropping to their lowest point in over three years, new data shows both planner and investor appetite for growth assets has bounced back. ...

Funds management

The team that stayed and won

Zurich won first place in the property and infrastructure category of this year's Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year awards off the longevity of its investm...