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New regulations will choke unlisted property market: PFA

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
Treasury's proposal to increase regulation around unlisted property funds will invariably reduce the number of products available to retail investors, according to the Property Funds Association. The PFA said the design and distribution obligations ...

Aurora repays stolen $1 million

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... of the misappropriated funds, it noted that "there was no legitimate purpose for any of the transfers from the Aurora Property Buy-Write Trust bank account." "Aurora is not suggesting that third party recipients knew the transfers were fraudulent at ...

AustralianSuper expands mandate for European growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... mandate has now been expanded to include the European market. AustralianSuper, which currently holds about $10 billion in property, said it is focused on Europe's prime and super prime sector as part of a wider global strategy. AustralianSuper head of ...

Chief economist update: The trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... from spilling over into consumer prices. Higher interest rates, in turn, carry negative implications for the bond and property markets. Stock prices could also suffer as higher labour costs cut into company earnings while higher interest rates lower ...

Former Provident Capital MD still banned but allowed procedural fairness

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... investors through their Fixed Term Investment Portfolio and advanced the debenture funds to third party borrowers, including property developers, on a first mortgage basis. Provident Capital also operated a mortgage fund under a wholesale facility with ...

Placer Property launches new fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
Specialist manager Placer Property is launching its third retail property fund and has appointed two new directors. The 333 Exhibition Street Property Fund is investing a commercial office building in Melbourne which is leased to the University of Melbourne. ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures showing that the annual growth rate in Australian residential property prices continued to ease in the December 2017 quarter. The "weighted average of eight capital cities" residential property prices ...

Convicted SMSF auditor disqualified

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... term for previous charges. Nayanaka Arjuna Samarakoon pleaded guilty to criminal offences that included dealing with property reasonably suspected of being proceeds of crime and attempting to obtain a financial advantage by deception. "On this basis ...

Housing affordability fuelling negative gearing backlash

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
The majority of non-property investors support the modification of negative gearing policy as fears over housing affordability grow. New research from the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) shows 55% of non-property investors would ...

PIMCO sells Aussie banks as correction looms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
... added that PIMCO believes household consumption will remain at a "lower average level" due to low wage growth, a slowing property market and stabilising savings rates. "Therefore, we are cautious on retailers, particularly those exposed to falling barriers ...