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The ever-shrinking pool of property fund managers

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
The pool of direct property fund managers in Australia has almost halved since the GFC, research shows. Mark Wist, of Melbourne-based Atchison Consulting, said that the number of property fund managers in Australia has fallen from 1,043 back in 2008 ...

PAS taps direct property, shifts bonds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
The $1.6 billion Professional Associations Super has poured $80 million into two direct property mandates and re-allocated $75 million from global bonds to Australian bonds. Paul Kessell, the fund's chief investment officer, said he was not able to ...

Commercial property regains appeal: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... Australian sharemarket will rise in the medium term. Richard Stacker, chief executive officer of Charter Hall Direct Property said they launched the Charter Hall Direct Property Direct Industrial Fund (DIF) in July in response to demand from advisers ...

Equity Trustees calls for more from teeth behind RE reforms

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... managed investments, and the type of investors to whom they are promoted - for example open-ended, daily priced, direct property funds offered to retail investors. Kalman noted that the GFC exposed areas of weakness including a lack of recognition of ...

LGS appoints managers

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... for more than 100,000 members and focuses on a socially responsible investment portfolio, including equities and direct property. In July LGS sold its half stake in admin and investment provider FuturePlus to its other half-owner Energy Industries Superannuation ...

AMP buys Sydney office for Sunsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Sunsuper has expanded its direct property mandate with AMP Capital Investors following a $100 million Sydney CBD office acquisition. AMP Capital Investors' Property Portfolio Services has a mandate with Sunsuper to manage a diversified, direct property ...

Charter Hall appoints Cannon

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
Charter Hall Direct Property has appointed former rugby union player Brendan Cannon as key account manager for Western Australia and Queensland, two of the group's growth markets. In his new role, Cannon is the primary contact for financial advisers ...

AustralianSuper seizes infra leadership

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... Station in Melbourne and Victoria's Newport Power Station. Combined with their listed infrastructure holdings, direct property and overseas infrastructure investments, their involvement includes 60 assets worldwide. The push to encourage local super ...

Direct property a beacon for instos

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
Competition is heating up among local and international pension funds to tap Australia's direct property market - but investments still abound for opportunistic insto investors, said a global real estate fund manager. Ian Mackie, LaSalle Asia Opportunity ...

Charter Hall to launch industrial property fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... 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 and is now the chief executive ...