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Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... had ventured in to the hospitality sector through the purchase of ALH Hotels which has Woolworths as a major lessee. The joint hotel deal with HOSTPLUS was reported at $603 million with initial lease terms of 20 years plus options. At the time of the ...

Folkestone develops two Melbourne properties

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... other large format retailers together with the opening of Aldi in April 2015." The second development is a $30 million equal joint venture with Wilmac Properties to invest in 85 strata office/warehouse/retail mews in Knoxfield. Commenting on this development ...

ISA and AIST want changes to professionalism model

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... a proposed model on lifting educational, professional and ethical standards in the financial services industry. In their joint submission to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the issue, both ISA and AIST believe work on increasing education standards ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... the minimum amount required." Under the current Age Pension assets test framework, ASFA estimates a couple would need a joint superannuation balance of around $510,000 to achieve a comfortable retirement. Vamos said increasing the taper rate for part-pensioners ...

Age Pension under the spotlight in tonight's budget

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... School Professor David Michayluk alerted that the changes might create a disincentive to save among younger Australians. In a joint study with Professor Paul Brockman of Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, he found that in Australia "younger people are ...

Pengana partners with queen of small caps

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
Pengana Capital has announced a joint venture with global small caps specialist Lizard Investors to run the Pengana Global Small Companies Fund. Lizard Investors is owned and run by the so called 'queen of small caps', Leah Zell. Prior to establishing ...

Bank results underpin wealth management new era

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... face a number of major reviews and inquiries into their culture and behaviour in the past. At the moment, a Parliamentary Joint Committee into financial advice, the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) and the Trowbridge report into risk advice are raising ...

Banking and super groups back parliamentary recommendations

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... lifting professional, ethical and education standards in the financial services industry. Public responses to a Parliamentary Joint Committee on the issue were due recently and Australian Bankers' Association chief executive, Steve Munchenberg, said ...

AustralianSuper buys $370m stake in Boston building

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
AustralianSuper has acquired a 49% stake in a building in Boston following a joint venture partnership with US-based Brookfield Property Partners. The property is valued at US$605 million (about $760 million), of which US$296.45 million (around $370 ...

ASIC takes SMSF business to court

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... In response to the growth in SMSFs, the increase by SMSFs in geared investment strategies and following the Parliamentary Joint Committee inquiry into the collapse of Trio, ASIC established an SMSF Taskforce in 2012. "The Taskforce meets regularly to ...