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Investors gearing up again

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... Institutional Bank. The bank is developing a number of new investment strategies to suit the needs of self managed super funds (SMSFs) and individual investors looking for increased gearing and capital protection. "What we're seeing is clients and advisers ...

Charter Hall fund assets to $70m

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... anticipating strong interest from super funds. "We anticipate continued strong interest from retail and self managed super funds in DIF and our other unlisted retail funds as more investors recognise the value on offer in the current market," said Stacker. ...

BlackRock to expand retail arm

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... funds, SMA and ETFs. "At the moment we offer [SMAs] as ordinary investment monies structure only, so self managed super funds can access it and ordinary investment monies canbut we can't take it in the superannuation environment." "Early next year, we ...

Get on board super reforms: Shorten

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... out of super... The Monty Python factions of industry funds versus retail, accountants versus planners, self managed super funds versus the world... the bickering, the industry navel gazing and insularity," he said. Instead, the industry should help ...

Ironstone partners advisers in property

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
The issue of investing in residential property, particularly through self managed super funds (SMSF), is highly problematic for financial advisers due to restrictions prohibiting them to offer property-related advice, according to Ironstone Group. Sean ...

Commercial property regains appeal: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
The latest Charter Hall Group Investor Forum survey of approximately 400 Self Managed Super Funds (SMSF) trustees and individual investors found that 55 per cent of investors plan to invest more into listed and unlisted property market this year. The ...

ETFs hit trillion dollar milestone

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... Europe." "In Australia, professional investors have increasingly mentioned their use of ETFs in their own Self Managed Super Funds (SMSFs)." Fuhr noted that efforts were underway to plug regulatory gaps "to allow fixed income ETFs to be listed and introduced ...

SMSFs carry underlying key person risk: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
A new report has raised concerns about the structure of self managed super funds (SMSF) as trustees potentially become unable to adequately invest and administer their retirement savings as they get older. The Financial Wellbeing in Retirement report ...

Count buys stakes in Victorian and NSW practices

PRESS RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... New South Wales. The practice provides accounting, investment and lending services and has expertise in self managed super funds (SMSFs), business structuring and succession planning. It has $50 million in funds under advice. Countplus bought the stake ...

Perkovic pushes for FirstWrap market share

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
... and also groups with accounting firm relationships. "We're working trying to be more accommodating to self managed super funds (SMSFs) so we added the direct equities capability in March," she said. Scott Durbin was promoted head of platform sales two ...