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Advisers turn to unlisted property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
Nine out of ten advisers are considering investing 15 per cent of their client portfolios into unlisted property investments this year, following last year's listed property trust (LPT) fallout. A survey of over 1,200 advisers conducted by Trilogy Funds ...

Residential property wins

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Residential property investment is the highest performing asset class over the last 20 years according to latest research, and one way to access it is to buy into pooled residential property funds. Lee Hughes, analyst at property research specialist ...

Zenith wins clients and adds to team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Zenith Investment Partners has won four new clients, appointed former Property Investment Research (PIR) associate director, Dugald Higgins, to manage its new direct property research division and added an additional investment analyst, Graeme Miller ...

Real estate under threat

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... class if property fund managers are not transparent about the sales and devaluation of their funds, says a US property investment expert. The slow trickling of cash flows into the global REITs sector has forced some funds to liquidate their property ...

Investors back AUI property proposal

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... yesterday said that this was not the case - in fact investors in its Retail Property Trust, the Regional Retail Property Investment and the East West Property Syndicate had immediately endorsed the proposal when it was first unveiled. "Although a 90 ...

Planners ignore property for profit

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... property as a primary returns churner has its downfalls. "It is definitely possible to make money from any real property investment, but there are an equal number of sad and disappointing stories, particularly in Queensland investment properties. "The ...

Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
The $63 billion Future Fund's overweight allocation to cash has paid off in the first quarter of this year - losing a mere 1.81 per cent when many funds suffered double-digit losses over the same period. This result, combined with the 2007/08 year ...

Investors question direct property valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... 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 AREIT and direct property valuations may ...

Property downturn over: RP Data

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... interest rates should result in an upswing in market activity," said Lawless. But an industry expert from Property Investment Research, Dugald Higgins, said that things are not as clear-cut as they may seem. Higgins, an associate director of PIR, said ...

When five become one: AUI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... arrangements, he said. But some industry experts are wary of such a move. Dugald Higgins, associate director of Property Investment Research, said that the biggest problem with AUI's decision to morph its offerings lies in its timing to launch the new ...