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Jumping volatility not yet swaying sentiment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... number of investors have shifted away from riskier investments such as stocks for the historic safer haven options of gold, REITs and mutual funds.

Franklin Templeton eyes Aus REITs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... in the Japanese and Singapore office space sector, and while these countries have good forward GDP growth, we felt some REITs had already run to far too fast," he said. "Instead we have increased our exposure to Australia, which we consider quite stable ...

Alt assets boom in uncertain times

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... correlation to stocks in the past ten years, while publicly-traded alternatives, including real estate investment trusts (REITs) and listed infrastructure, had a moderate correlation. Over the past five years, global direct real estate averaged 12 per ...

Global LPT defies credit gloom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... Asian and European markets. "While the sub prime issue has had its greatest impact on the US homebuilder sector, mortgage REITs and collaterised debt obligation (CDO) markets, it had not dampened growth expectations for the world's major economies, a ...

Bargains emerge in global REITs

How can a sector move from returning 43 per cent to losing 8 per cent in the space of twelve months? A leading US property expert argues that the massive swipe on the global real estate investment trusts (REIT) sector presents bargain buys not seen ...

Labour calls for fin services tax reforms

... Estate Investment Trusts (REIT). A rewrite of the tax law, he said, would help cut compliance costs for managed funds and REITS, as well as update antiquated tax laws that reduce the local financial services sector's competitiveness. "As other countries ...

European property the next big game: Perennial

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... key growth sector in the coming years due to their highly diversified nature, low starting base and the introduction of REITs, according to managing director and portfolio manager of Perennial Real Estate Investments, Stephen Hayes. Hayes said Europe ...

Lower foreign withholding tax will boost Australia: IFSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
... is possible that our real estate investment trust industry will move offshore," he said. "We could well find that the new REITs [real estate investment trusts] which we set up in this industry are not set up in Australia but are set up in centres which ...

Global indexing hits $6.4 trillion

... alternative asset classes normally defined as "active" are now getting indexed such as commodities, real estate investment trusts (REITS) and global equities. The hunt for 'alpha' returns has also resulted to funds flowing out of pure index funds and ...

Centro to buy $6.35b US REIT

... pending the announcement. It is the group's third significant merger agreement with listed US real estate investment trusts (REITs), including the $4.3 billion Heritage deal last October and Kramont in 2005. Subject to the deal's completion, Centro has ...