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Accountants partner up with AXA and MLC to offer financial advice

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... offer on advice in a number of areas including the establishment and closure of SMSFs, advice on assets, including direct property, held within SMSFs, advice on financial planning, life risk and credit advice for individuals and businesses, as well as ...

Harvard defies critics with 21% return

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... the 26% return from private equity. Meanwhile physical assets including natural resources like timberland and direct property achieved 18%. Other strong performing asset classes were public commodities earning 27% and foreign bonds earning 21%. Even ...

Super returns crash below 5%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... research bulletin released by Rainmaker. Rainmaker is the researcher behind SelectingSuper. The researcher said direct property meanwhile earned 11% through the year, international fixed interest 9%, Australian fixed interest 7% and cash 5%. International ...

CBD vacancies hit 2-year low

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
Office vacancy rates falling to their lowest level in two years reinforces the recovery in direct property returns, albeit it doesn't resolve the mixed messages coming from the sector. Total vacancy in Australia's office markets decreased from 9.6 to ...

In defence of superannuation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... funds average 52% but for retail funds it's 61% and if you include retail's preference for listed rather than direct property this increases to 66%, explaining why retail funds are much more vulnerable to equity market falls. The bigger problem is longevity ...

nabInvest swoops for Aviva

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... significant opportunity to grow and expand the business." The deal does not include Aviva Investors Australia's direct property investment business. For Aviva Investors, the asset management business of global insurance group Aviva, the exit form Australian ...

SMSFs stockpiling cash, weighted to banks

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... borrowing, investing 100% into property. The second group had taken a conservative level of debt to gain exposure to direct property. "It would be interesting to see what loan-to-value ratio the loan represented on the investment acquisition and as a ...

Fund manager recommends less defensive retirement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... an alternative to more traditional property exposure including A-REITs listed funds and 'hard assets', such as direct property and infrastructure. "You actually have quite a long time horizon when you hit retirement so its not like you need to hit this ...

LGS earns sustainability award

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... consecutive Australian Business Award for its work in environmental sustainability, due to its efforts in its direct property portfolio. Local Government Super (LGS) earned the award for its work in upgrading six commercial buildings to five star on ...

Super funds returns on upwards trend

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... international bond market that have returned about 10%. Property returns beginning to come back to normal, especially direct property which earned nearly 11% through the year, just adds to the improving story around superannuation, said Dunnin. While ...