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Time to buy residential property: Survey

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... pandemic shutting down home inspections across the country and seeing many Australians' wallets run dry, more than 70% of property investors believe now is a good time to buy. That's according to new research coming out of the Property Investment Professionals ...

Super escapes COVID-19 hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... Industry funds were meanwhile insulated from listed market falls thanks in part to their exposure to unlisted assets such as property and infrastructure. Self-managed super funds were hit in a similar vein to retail funds, realising a loss of $69.7 billion ...

Receivers appointed to Mayfair 101 entity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... would entail. Mayfair 101 chief executive James Mawhinney told Financial Standard the newly launched Mayfair Australian Property Bond will not be impacted. "The Property Bond is a separate product that provides investors with first registered mortgages ...

Adviser banned for five years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... Lewis advised most of his clients to use a Limited Recourse Borrowing Arrangement (LRBA) to fund the purchase of real property through a SMSF. ASIC said Lewis also gave insurance advice to all clients. "When providing this advice, Lewis did not professionally ...

Super not sacred: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... $8.7 billion. Many appear to be run as businesses - according to the ATO, one even has a loan of $168 million against property holdings. Taxing the wealthy first always makes good political sense." Rice said it was likely that all Australians will need ...

Outsourced trading set to boom

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... driving interest in outsourced trading, he said. When asked whether outsourced trading poses any risks to the intellectual property of these trades, or whether there was any risk of information leaking within the industry, Woodward said it was not of ...

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... "Over the years, these portfolios have switched from low interest-bearing government bonds to infrastructure, credit and property in the belief these assets would act as defensive proxies for low yielding debt instruments." When markets started to crash ...

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... the team has $500 million to $600 million in dry powder, and it sees opportunities to lend it to mid-sized companies, property developers and private equity firms. "We expect to see a lot of companies -- because they will be operating in a weaker operating ...

House prices expected to tumble

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... chief economist Paul Bloxham said a U-shaped recovery and COVID-19-related policies are likely to take their toll on the property market. However, it was noted that the gains accumulated before the pandemic will offset the decline in prices expected ...

New ETFs see success as UBS suspends funds

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... market ETFs, Walesby said. However, more recently investors had shifted to ETFs with exposure to Australian equity and property, he said, as well as an increase in shorter-term trading activity, with traders turning to cash, commodities and geared funds. ...