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GDI Property aiming for big returns from small portfolio

HAMISH MADDEN | WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006

Direct property specialist manager GDI Property Group has acquired two new properties for its new GDI Total Return Fund while at the same time highlighting an increase in investor appetite for small value-add direct property portfolios. Tony Veale ...

Devote 20 per cent or more to direct property: ADPIA

HAMISH MADDEN | TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006

The Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA) said investors should be allocating at least 20 per cent of their portfolios to direct property. An analysis of asset class performance data for the last 10 and 20 years, undertaken by Atchison ...

Another Dimension to DFA

Flush from the success of its current suite of products, leading fund manager Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has today launched a new fund that follows the same winning formula but with a global tilt. DFA senior portfolio manager Andrew Cain said that ...

Access all asset classes: Vanguard

HAMISH MADDEN | MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006

The outlook for most asset classes is healthy for 2007, according to Vanguard, but the most pragmatic and cost effective way to gain exposure across all asset classes is through properly diversified passive investing. While banking and financial services ...

Ex-FAI financial controller sentenced

Antony Boulden, 42, a former financial controller of the corporate and professional insurance division of FAI General Insurance Company (FAIG), was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment to be served by periodic detention. Boulden was sentenced after earlier ...

Up and down the fee chain: Mercer

Mercer Investment Consulting has released a global study of institutional management fees that found which asset classes charge a lot and country-by-country fee differences. The key findings were that fee levels have remained stable since 2004 and ...

T.Rowe Price wins Chinese govt fund mandate

T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services has won a US equity mandate from the National Council for Social Security Fund (SSF) of China, one of only 10 non-Chinese investment managers selected by the US$25 billion-plus pension fund. The SSF, similar ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP | THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006

The Australian stock market was trading higher at noon, led by the resource stocks and banks, and following a strong lead from US markets. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had gained 20.2 points to 5472.8, while the all ordinaries added ...

Mirvac to launch new funds after $1.1b buying spree

Listed property giant Mirvac Group has stitched up a deal to acquire worth $1.124 billion of properties and business from Walker Corporation which will underpin new funds to be launched within the next 12 months. The acquisitions include $362.5 million ...

Catholic Super overhauls property mandates

HAMISH MADDEN | WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006

The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) has revised its property investments resulting in $100 million of new property mandates being awarded. Lend Lease was allocated $52 million, with $25 million to be invested in the Core Plus Property ...

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Treasury responds to Debelle's review into the AOFM

KARREN VERGARA

Treasury has responded to the Guy Debelle-led review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), agreeing to all six recommendations.

Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year.

MaxCap hires from Vanguard, AustralianSuper

MATTHEW WAI

MaxCap has welcomed two senior directors, including a portfolio manager from Australia's largest super fund, reporting to the recently named chief executive Kylie Robb.

Zenith snags mandate from Granite Bay

MATTHEW WAI

Granite Bay Private Wealth has selected Zenith Investment Partners to support their investment governance and due diligence.

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