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IFM cuts carbon footprint from Aussie infra assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
IFM Investors' local infrastructure assets, which include Ausgrid, major airports, ports and toll roads, cut their carbon footprint by 7.9% in the year ending June 2019. The industry-superannuation-owned fund manager started reporting its infrastructure ...

Has COVID-19 solved the advice problem?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... meeting interface is 100% wrong. "They absolutely love it." Dillon pointed out the crisis had not only pushed advice into the homes of clients by way of digital meetings, but it brought clients into the homes of advisers. "So while it's not as personable ...

Business unusual: COVID-19 threats facing real estate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... Australia's capital cities and skyscrapers empty and its employees now working from the comfort (and safety) of their homes. But what impact will this have on our real estate investments? Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak the notion of "working from ...

Calls for super release to borrow from RBA

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... household debt. "There are other ways for Australians to get cash by drawing on other assets, particularly equity in their homes," he said. "But at the current time, with uncertainty about what the crisis will do to housing prices, increasing indebtedness ...

Philippines halts all trading

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... community quarantine"." Luzon is the country's largest and most populated island, with 57 million people now restricted to their homes. Following in the steps of Italy, all businesses in Luzon will be closed, with the exception of those that provide ...

Lendlease, Canadian pension fund expand partnership

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... partnership with an additional investment of approximately $155 million (£80 million) in the next phase of new Build-to-Rent homes, which will be at the original Lendlease Elephant Park development. CPP Investments will invest approximately £40 million ...

BetaShares calls for universal pension

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
... system implicitly encourages these retirees to spend additional savings or redirect them towards exempt assets like their homes, instead of choosing to invest them to generate income and capital growth," BetaShares said. BetaShares proposes eliminating ...

AMP urged to mediate with advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... exit plan. "Many of those planners who borrowed from AMP to buy into the business at a set price, now face losing their homes and their livelihoods, as the financial institution seeks to impose a three-year restriction on working as a financial planner," ...

First State Super acquires rental properties

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
... affordable housing closer to where they work, go a long way towards easing that burden and I hope these tenants enjoy their new homes and shorter commute." Across NSW, First State Super owns 35 residential units in Hurstville, 17 units in Waterloo, 61 ...

Aussie stocks burnt in blaze

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... overreactions could present a buying opportunity," it said. With 10 million hectares of land burnt in the blaze, and 2000 homes destroyed, UBS suggests these figures are more than likely only going to rise. So too will insurance claims, with current ...