REAL ESTATE

Superannuation

The Cooper Review panel may have suggested otherwise, but Mike Taylor writes that the exponential growth in the number of self-managed superannuation funds and the invest...

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...

Funds management

UBS and MLC’s property securities funds have been placed ‘on hold’ by Standard & Poor’s Fund Services following key staff resignations....

Funds management

Charter Hall is looking forward to a better outlook for property investing, considering itself well placed for improving investor sentiment....

Superannuation

Accountancy firm Chan & Naylor has called for an end to what it calls an arbitrary maximum limit of four members to each SMSF....

Financial planning

MLC’s announcement that it will terminate an AREIT managed by Challenger and increase its maximum GREIT holding will not result in a change of rating from Standard ...

Funds management

ING Group is undertaking an evaluation of the position of the global ING Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) business amid market concerns about the future direction...

Financial planning

New Towers Watson research has revealed Macquarie Group as the dominant player in terms of alternatives management for pension funds....

Financial planning

Australia's population of high-net-worth individuals has risen by 34.4 per cent to 173,600, according to Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management and Capgemini’s latest Wor...

Financial planning

Global institutional investors expect to recommit to alternative investments over the next two to three years....

Editorial

With the financial crisis effectively over, Benjamin Levy examines the state of the direct property market and looks at the role it should play for investors in the futur...

Financial planning

Macquarie Funds Group has taken a majority stake in real estate funds manager Rismark, with a Macquarie executive being appointed as chairman....

Funds management

The Australian merger of BNP Paribas Investment Partners and Fortis Investments has created the 14th largest fund manager in the local market with assets under management...

Funds management

Wealthy and Wise Lifestyle Planning will be opening a chain of retail shopfronts that will serve as one-stop-shops for both financial advice and real estate services....

People & Products

GESB has appointed Kate Budiselik and Edwin Schultz as investment strategists....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

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

8 months ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

3 weeks 5 days ago

Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

2 weeks 4 days ago

Australian retirees could increase their projected annual incomes by as much as 51 per cent through comprehensive financial advice, according to a Vanguard study, but cos...

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