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Unlisted still king: MTAA Super

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... billion or 50 per cent of its $6.12 billion to illiquid investments, including private equity, infrastructure, and direct property, according to data by Rainmaker Information. "The Fund has long followed a strategy of investing a substantial proportion ...

Sunsuper pumps $100m into Trinity

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... currently has a portfolio of 25 properties. Hartley said Sunsuper invests around 6 per cent - or $780 million - into direct property, which makes the fund underweight in its strategic allocation of 7.5 per cent. It is a state that Hartley is pleased ...

Unilever fund dumps direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... pension fund for Unilever, Progress, is radically changing its asset allocation to property by pulling out of the direct property sector and switching to listed real estate trusts. Due to changing market conditions in the real estate market in the past ...

All not lost for LPTs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Property is currently the most talked about issue among super funds. Although direct property is smashing its listed counterpart in performance, industry punters caution investors not to discount LPTs as the asset class is expected to bounce back following ...

Investors question direct property valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... illiquid asset class liquid, just to get it to fit into platforms?" asked Linden Toll, president of the Australian Direct Property Association, at the PIR property investment conference. "For funds under management growth," he said. The disconnect between ...

Nestle shuffles asset allocations

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... cut in Aussie fixed interest, and zero in cash from a previous 10 per cent. The fund also axed its 4 per cent direct property stake and pumped 30 per cent into the Russell Australian Enhanced Cash Fund. Meanwhile the fund's high growth option's emerging ...

Reed fund not a concern: CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... unrealised forecast capital growth. According to Standard & Poor's, the fund manager is not intending to buy any more direct property assets beyond existing contracts in the short term and is focussing "bedding down the contracted acquisitions" and debt ...

LMW Invest secures property veterans

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... respectively as executive director funds management and director of marketing and distribution. Este is a listed and direct property expert, with a career spanning 20 years across the two sectors. Prior to his appointment, Este was a fund manager with ...

Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... 1994 by a group of industry funds, also have a high allocation to alternative assets particularly infrastructure, direct property and conservative hedge funds - all of which cushioned their performance from the maladies of the listed markets. Hill said ...

NAB Super divests direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
NAB Group Super is expected to sell its last four directly-owned properties as part of a property portfolio restructure. The fund made the move under the advice of its asset consultant JANA Investment Advisers. "The [main objectives] for the sale are ...