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Funds SA portfolio manager leaves, team to expand

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... looked after its alternatives portfolio. Clive Boyce managed Funds SA's private equity, infrastructure and opportunistic property investments, starting in 2005. He stepped away from full-time executive activities last Friday. "Funds SA is currently expanding ...

Labor Government on the cards: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... in the next 12 months: a global trade war; China going into recession; the Labor Party winning the next election or a property crash. Of all the possible scenarios, the majority (40%) of respondents believe that the Labor Party coming into power is most ...

NAFTA's dead, welcome USMCA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... for final approval. According to reports, Canada agreed to lowering barriers in its dairy market, stronger intellectual property rights, encourage car production into countries paying higher wages and to raise the threshold on duties and sales taxes ...

AMP ditches SMSF lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... shock to no one. "AMP's new chairman, David Murray, has been one of the most vocal critics of self-managed super fund property lending," she said. "Banks are focused on reducing risk in their loan books. In a falling property market, it's not ...

SMSFs seek offshore diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... this, allocations to cash accounted for 12.1% while term deposits of less than a year made up the balance. Exposures to property also dropped slightly from 19.3% last year to 18.9% in June 2018. Of this, direct property took the biggest hit having climbed ...

Chief economist update: Surplus here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... strong labor market and relatively robust commodity prices, to be accompanied by expenditure restraint. We also expect property prices to continue their orderly unwind, and that this slowdown won't weigh heavily on consumer spending and the financial ...

DomaCom concludes Federal Court action

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... DomaCom have concluded, allowing an SMSF to invest in DomaCom's fund even if a related party is a tenant in the underlying property. Last month, the Federal Court found that the sole purpose test was not breached when a related party of an SMSF rented ...

AustralianSuper awards international property mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
... finance One Crown Place in London. The loan will assist Malaysian conglomerate MTD Group to develop the 34,400 square metre property. The building will comprise 12,600sqm of office space, 650sqm of retail, a 41-bed boutique hotel and 246 luxury residential ...

Perpetual inks global strategic partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
... time, there is a shift among Australian investors towards global investing to balance overexposure to domestic equity and property assets. This new alliance deals directly to this trend." Dogan said Perpetual is looking forward to working with FundRock ...

Investa Office Fund's Canadian bidder ups the stakes

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... its unitholder meeting, which would have been held today, to an undetermined time as they considered the offer. Oxford Property Group's offer would take IOF's value to close to $3.4 billion. The offer is unsolicited, and non-binding and the IFML board ...