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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 ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
The Australian stock market was strong at noon with the big miners and gains in Telstra driving the bourse upwards. The market was also buoyed by Fairfax Media's move to acquire Rural Press and create a $9 billion media group. At 1205 AEDT, the benchmark ...

DIY funds tail the experts

The latest survey from specialist self-managed super fund (SMSF) admin provider Multiport show that SMSFs have returned 10.1 per cent in the year to September, marginally below the returns of a comparable super fund option, the Rainmaker/Selecting Super ...

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 ...

Beware of Christmas credit card fraud

Leading credit card research firm CANNEX has urged consumers to watch their credit card transactions over Christmas as high credit card usage over the period increases the chances of fraud. "In recent years, Australians on average spend between 15 per ...

FEAL appoints three new directors

The Fund Executives Association Ltd (FEAL) has appointed three new directors to the board following its Annual General Meeting (AGM) last week. The new directors are Damian Hill, chief executive of REST Super, Colin McGuinness, chief executive of NGS ...

MTAA Super appoints new chairman

The Motor Trades Association of Australia Superannuation Fund (MTAA Super) has appointed a leading public servant, Dr. Allan Hawke, as independent director and chairman of the fund's Trustee Board. Dr. Hawke is the current Chancellor of the Australian ...

Macq splits the wrap

Macquarie Adviser Services has introduced a super splitting feature in the Macquarie Wrap platform despite reports that other savings strategies introduced in the Costello budget proposal have superceded the benefits of super splitting. David Shirlow ...

Wealth managers will have difficulty with AML

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
The financial services organisations that will struggle most with the introduction of anti-money laundering programs are those that may otherwise be least affected by it - the life companies and investment managers in the wealth management sector. Steve ...

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 ...