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Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... Frontier's senior consultant Allison Hill said that they've outperformed partly because of an early call to bail out of listed property trusts and credit-type securities two years ago. "We were a little bit early [timing-wise] but at the time, we could ...

AGEST quadruples cash option to $400m

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... strategy, we're just waiting for a market turnaround and then move it back to other asset classes like shares, listed property et cetera," said Seton. Looking forward, Seton said AGEST Super is hanging on to its long-term investment strategy, and that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... Friday," Mr Halliday said. Market leader BHP Billiton fell 76 cents to $38.35 and Rio Tinto lost $1.91 to $119.69. Listed property trusts were taken lower by a big fall in Lend Lease Corporation Ltd, which expects its 2008 full-year net profit to fall ...

Alternatives: shock absorbers of sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... indexes including losses of 24.1 per cent for the MSCI World Index (unhedged) and 38.3 per cent for the S&P/ASX Listed Property Trust Index. Bucking the trend is Select Asset Management's alternatives portfolio, which returned 9.3 per cent over the same ...

Former Invesco duo harvest good returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... mining services, infrastructure, engineering leveraged companies, and the healthcare sector. We remain underweight listed property trusts, geared infrastructure investment vehicles, utilities, discretionary expenditure and US housing [and] consumer exposures," ...

AXA direct property assets tops $900m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
AXA has slashed its listed property trust allocation from 40 per cent to 7.5 per cent and diverted the funds to more than double its direct property assets to $942 million. The group's wholesale Australian property fund has amassed a direct property ...

Deloitte pushes for cyber advisers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... client data will allow financial planners to effectively service more clients. "Should you want to get out of listed property trusts and move it into a cash management trust, the planner could say that would be applicable for any body with a portfolio ...

S&P names 2008 Fund Awards finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... Unity Funds Management Limited AXA Australia Ltd Challenger Managed Investments Limited Sandhurst Trustees Limited Listed Property AMP Capital Investors Deutsche Asset Management (Australia) Limited ING Clarion Real Estate Securities LP Invesco Australia ...

OFG banks on bonds and property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
Over Fifty Group (OFG) may be expecting an average loss of $3.66 million this year, but the fund manager is reviving its focus on its Friendly Society and Property Funds Management businesses to steer the firm to calmer waters. In an Australian Securities ...

Back testing not enough

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... investing in. This includes how they are likely to perform in good times, bad times and all others in between. "Local listed property trusts are a classic case of this. "Over time, the sector has become way too concentrated, and increasingly risky, to ...