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Charter Hall to launch industrial property fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
Listed property group Charter Hall, which early this year bought Macquarie's core real estate management platform, responds to SMSF demand for direct property investments with the launch of a new industrial fund. Richard Stacker, previously at Macquarie ...

Infrastructure mandates tough for super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... nice if super funds in Australia could get a reasonable return for members and support our country at the same time. "The problem is we're trying to get a good return for our members - and if you look at the performance of infrastructure projects like ...

AIA moves to integrate retail offering

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... platform, they will be in a better position to address their clients' end-to-end protection needs and tackle the very real problem of underinsurance amongst everyday Australians." Platform Investor Protect will capitalise on the converging retail and ...

Advice goes direct to retail shopfronts

... financial advice but also superannuation advice. The group is starting with two advisers. "Hopefully it becomes a real problem for me in the sense that we get enormous amounts of demand," said David Elia, chief executive at HOST-PLUS. He admitted the ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... forecasts for the US housing market, proclaiming that the caffeine hit from the homebuyers' tax credit is now no more. The problem it seems is that these "experts" try their hardest to scare the markets. When confidence takes a hit - as we've seen in ...

Finance lends hand to Operation Smile

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
ANZ, AMP Capital, Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, UBS and Westpac were among the local financial services providers that supported the launch of Operation Smile Australia, a charity that helps children from developing countries who suffer from facial ...

GESB can manage tougher measures on capital reserves

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
WA-based GESB said the super fund supports the Cooper Review's recommendation on new capital requirements and said it won't be an issue even if - in theory - the super fund grows to $350 billion, the average size of a super fund by 2035 based on Treasury ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
The Australian market is likely to open higher after another surge on overseas markets overnight. Key indices were higher, as was oil and copper, although silver and gold were lower. At 0728 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

Ban insurance commissions in super: Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... has raised planners' concerns and predictions that this could curb future attempts to improve Australia's underinsurance problem, said Paul Foster, managing director of planning firm Addwealth. "I think it will mean a lot less insurance gets written ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... double dip? This is the question that's been bugging financial markets in recent times. This is all well and good but the problem is markets appear to be talking themselves down and are busy at work desperately searching to find the negative in each ...