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Property back to fair value

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
The Australian property securities sector has been undeniably hard hit by the US credit liquidity crisis and ailing stockmarket, but industry punters believe that the sector is going through a rebirth of correction - and now returning to a "fair value" ...

Navigator funds up 53pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... continued to drive growth. "Our strategy in 2008 continues to concentrate on relationships, service and product. We will focus on leading the market with our customer focused Riskfirst and n-link technologies and outstanding tax optimization capabilities," ...

PI a priority at Paragem

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... compensation in place for any fallbacks in their business operations. But the firm's target market bypasses the industry giants to focus on smaller players in the sector. "There was a great outcry by a number of planning firms and principals arguing ...

QSuper offers low cost option

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
QSuper has designed a low cost balanced option, Basic Growth, which boasts a low management expense ratio by focusing on passive investments. Basic Growth maintains a low management expense ratio (MER) of 0.32 per cent for 2007/08 due to passive investments ...

Magellan builds infrastructure team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
Magellan Financial Group has recruited Kris Webster to its investment team in the firm's latest endeavour to bolster its infrastructure capabilities. Webster will be playing an integral role in analysing and valuing global listed infrastructure securities ...

Fiducian FP attracts HNW clients

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Fiducian financial planners have refined their skills and are attracting more high net worth investors than ever before. Indy Singh, managing director at Fiducian, said the company previously focused on delivering simple effective financial advice but ...

Gunning appointed Global CIO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... investment innovation," Craig Ueland, chief executive and president at Russell, said. "This innovative mindset, as well as his focus on leveraging our strong relationships with investment managers, makes him very well suited to drive Russell's investment ...

MLC eyes distressed bank loan market

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... sits within the diversified portfolios of MLC's retail and wholesale superannuation and allocated pension clients, will focus on investment opportunities stemming from the liquidity-squeezed global bank loan market. Peter Sumner, MLC portfolio manager ...

Ray White snaps up Woolies property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... Invest, Ray White's continuing acquisition activities stem from the firm's "scalable" business model and property growth-focus strategy. Ray White Invest partners with privately owned property developers to undertake projects of around the $150 million ...

Australian private equity still going strong

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
Private equity investments in the Asia Pacific region remained relatively benign last year, but Australia is still going strong in the PE fundraising front. According to figures from Thomson Financial's Asia-Pacific private equity review, PE investments ...